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Q&A: Crypto jackers redirect illicit mining ops to bigger targets — company servers

The Last Watchdog

Illicit crypto mining is advancing apace. It began when threat actors began stealthily embedding crypto mining functionality into the web browsers of unwitting individuals. Related article: Illicit crypto mining hits cloud services. It’s likely IT and security teams won’t find the infection for months.

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GUEST ESSAY: Why any sudden influx of spam emails is an indicator of a likely security issue

The Last Watchdog

Related: How AI can relieve security pros What causes spam emails? Leaked email: Companies or third-party vendors put email address security at risk when they experience data breaches. Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. It may also be a part of a more targeted attack.

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SHARED INTEL: A foolproof consumer’s guide to creating and managing bulletproof passwords

The Last Watchdog

Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. For example, all of your sites for social media would be in a category, all of your email sites together, all of your banking sites together, and all of your shopping sites together. Here’s an example.

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How ‘digital transformation’ gave birth to a new breed of criminal: ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. Related article: 7 hacks signaling a coming global cyber war. Security responsibilities. Machine-identity capers.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” Therefore, in this article the terms “information,” “data,” and “content” are synonymous.

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UK Information Commissioner’s Office Publishes Final Guidance On Employee Monitoring

Data Protection Report

It substantially follows the draft guidance, with some additional examples and pointers on where employers “must”, “should”, or “could” follow the approach laid out. Similarly, examples draw out the distinctions between workers who might expect intrusive monitoring in their employment and those who would not. Takeaways for employers 1.1

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Adversarial ML Attack that Secretly Gives a Language Model a Point of View

Schneier on Security

Machine learning security is extraordinarily difficult because the attacks are so varied—and it seems that each new one is weirder than the next. For example, a spinned summarization model outputs positive summaries of any text that mentions the name of some individual or organization.

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