John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

As part of an ongoing speaker series “ The Internet We Deserve ,” a collaboration with Northeastern’s Burnes Center For Social Change , I had a chance to sit down with Lessig and conduct a wide-ranging discussion covering his views on the impact of money in government’s role as a regulator of last resort.

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CILIP

JANUARY 24, 2020

Like writing a tightly coded video game that was small enough to fit onto a ZX81 RAM pack, or the original Unix operating system which took up only 16KB of memory. And for academic libraries and publishers, could micropayments per journal article supersede today?s Published: 24 January 2020. Honey, I blockchained the library.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

Research from IRONSCALES revealed that 81% of organisations around the world have experienced an increase in email phishing attacks since March 2020. Phishing in the UK 10. A UK government study found that half of adults said they had received a phishing message in the previous month. APWG detected 1.3 Anatomy of an attack 19.

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Unwritten Record

MARCH 25, 2021

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). National Archives staff inspecting motion picture film, 10/12/1937.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

This article details two major findings from the report: five major cybersecurity threats and prioritization problems. NetScout: Observed 13,142,840 DDoS attacks, including: 104,216 video gaming enterprise attacks. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. 20,551 gambling industry attacks.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 19, 2023

This article will delve into the power of Nmap, how attackers use Nmap, and alternative penetration testing (pentesting) tools. Not only could entire articles be written about the use of any specific tool in Nmap, a 464 page book has been published on the basics of Nmap. Nmap will also capture the media access control (MAC) addresses.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

This article dives into the lexicon of malware, offering descriptions, protections, and examples of each. As you browse the myriad of malicious software featured in this article, we offer tips for how best to defend against each type. In 2008, the Kraken botnet with 495,000 bots infected 10% of the Fortune 500 companies.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 26, 2022

He was indicted on charges of stealing millions of academic articles and journals from a digital archive at MIT. Instead, the US government did, saying quote Stealing is stealing whether you use a computer command or crowbar and whether you take documents data or dollars. And then in 2020 pandemic, you know, DEF CON was all virtual.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 2, 2022

And part of the reason for that explosive growth is over the last 10 years DEF CON has been adding topic specific villages. It started because we we would go to conferences and where we read articles and you know magazines or newspapers or whatever. Vamosi: DEF CON moved to the Rio for a few years, and now it's at Caesars well.

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