The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One reason for the enduring waves of ransomware is that unstructured data is easy for hackers to locate and simple for them to encrypt. The main difference between the two is organization and analysis. For structured data, users can run simple analysis tools, i.e., content searches, to find what they need. Ransomware target.

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Unstructured data Ransomware Mining Encryption 194

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

” reads the analysis published by Avast. “Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.”

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IoT Communications Mining Encryption 91

IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important. Generative AI-assisted API mapping called out in this paper is a mini exemplar of this.

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Cloud Customer Experience Mining Marketing 105

The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

In the first case you quickly go down the data governance path (inclusive of data security), which must factor in requirements for control, retention, protection (including encryption), and masking/redaction, to name a few things. Consider, if you will, a cloud resource being compromised in order to run cryptocurrency mining.

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Risk Cloud Mining Encryption 40

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In November 2022, the password manager service LastPass disclosed a breach in which hackers stole password vaults containing both encrypted and plaintext data for more than 25 million users. “I ran my own analysis on top of their data and reached the same conclusion that Taylor reported. But on Nov.

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Passwords Encryption Blockchain Data breaches 347

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something. So there are companies which only mine cryptocurrencies and they make money by this. Remember WEP?

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Libraries Blockchain Mining Encryption 52

eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Of course, since most commercial data lakes build off of existing cloud infrastructure, this should be the case. However, data lakes add additional elements such as data feeds, data analysis (data lake house, third-party analysis tools, etc.) Data Lake Encryption. Data Lake Isolation. Data Lakes Transmission Security.

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