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Mine, Mine, All Mine

John Battelle's Searchblog

Author’s musical preferences not included… No Longer Mine When I write, I like to listen to music. I Want To Mine This raises much larger issues about how – or whether – we are intelligently architecting the possibilities that define our interaction with knowledge. The original MusicPlasma interface.

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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 was easy to see this coming. Cryptojacking was born.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime

Krebs on Security

” Stern apparently believed in his crypto dreams so much that he sponsored a $100,000 article writing contest on the Russian language cybercrime forum Exploit, asking interested applicants to put forth various ideas for crypto platforms. . “Cryptocurrency article contest! ” Stern wrote.

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

ARMA International

In the context of DT, this article defines content as information or data that has context and is consumable by humans and automated systems that allow them to make decisions, support operations, take actions, and monetize value by delivering products and services. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks.

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Privacy of Printing Services

Schneier on Security

The Washington Post has an article about popular printing services, and whether or not they read your documents and mine the data when you use them for printing: Ideally, printing services should avoid storing the content of your files, or at least delete daily. Some services, like the New York Public Library and PrintWithMe, do both.

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PurpleFox malware infected at least 2,000 computers in Ukraine

Security Affairs

The Windows botnet has been active since late 2017, it was mainly used to mine cryptocurrency, but it was also involved in DDoS attacks in 2018. ” reads the alert published by CERT-UA. Experts defined DirtyMoe as a complex malware that has been designed as a modular system.

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

The Last Watchdog

Typically, scammers want to get ahold of an email because it’s a gold mine of information. Follow him on Twitter or LinkedIn for more articles on emerging cybersecurity trends. People suddenly getting a lot of spam emails may be the target of a sophisticated cyber-attack. It may also be a part of a more targeted attack.

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