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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

A major focus of cybersecurity as an industry is its efforts to detect, root out, and respond to potential fraudsters attempting to trick companies and people out of their money, data, or both. According to data from the Federal Reserve , the 55-69 age group currently controls 41.2% So why do scammers go after older individuals more?

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Android Botnet leverages ADB ports and SSH to spread

Security Affairs

Trend Micro recently discovered an Android crypto-currency mining botnet that can spread via open ADB (Android Debug Bridge) ports and Secure Shell (SSH). Security researchers at Trend Micro have discovered an new Android crypto-currency mining botnet that spreads via open ADB ( Android Debug Bridge ) ports and Secure Shell (SSH).

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5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019

Security Affairs

We foresee regulations expanding beyond authentication and data privacy, and into more detailed requirements of network security and visibility into device bills of materials. not located behind routers or firewalls) to conduct future DDoS attacks on data centers and cloud services or for crypto currency mining purposes.

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Leopard Spots and Zebra Stripes: Fraud and Behavioral Analytics

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Luckily, zebras don’t use mobile devices, or manufacturers would be hard at work on stripe recognition technology. I invite you to read Juan’s blog to learn more about the challenges and approaches to protecting the big data behind the analytics. Lots of data, of course!

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

ARMA International

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. ARMA defines information as “Data that has been given value through analysis, interpretation, or compilation in a meaningful form” (ARMA 2016, p 28).

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Back to the bit about risks impacting data collected by IoT devices and back again to CloudPets, Context Security's piece aligned with my own story about kids' CloudPets messages being left exposed to the internet. Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet? So, what's to be done about it?

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