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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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How process mining improves IT service management to save your business time and money

IBM Big Data Hub

Auto-discovery tools like process mining — a tool gaining popularity with organizations — does just that. 36% of respondents polled primarily use automated discovery tools like process mining, which improve their ability to analyze processes objectively and at scale.

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Cryptominer ELFs Using MSR to Boost Mining Process

Security Affairs

The Uptycs Threat Research Team recently observed Golang-based worm dropping cryptominer binaries which use the MSR (Model Specific Register) driver to disable hardware prefetchers and increase the speed of the mining process by 15%. In this blog, we will detail the usage of MSR to disable the hardware prefetcher in the cryptomining malwares.

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Hackers are scanning the internet for vulnerable Salt installs, Ghost blogging platform hacked

Security Affairs

Hackers are conducting a mass-scanning the Internet for vulnerable Salt installs that could allow them to hack the organizations, the last victim is the Ghost blogging platform. Salt (aka SaltStack) is Python-based, open-source software for event-driven IT automation, remote task execution, and configuration management. ” . .

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MaliBot Android Banking Trojan targets Spain and Italy

Security Affairs

MaliBot disguises itself as a cryptocurrency mining app named “Mining X” or “The CryptoApp”, experts also observed the malicious code masqueraded as “MySocialSecurity” and “Chrome” apps. “MaliBot listens for events using the Accessibility Service. ” continues the report. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Here’s an ACEDS Houston CLE Event You Can Attend No Matter Where You Are: eDiscovery Education

eDiscovery Daily

In a normal non-COVID-19 (coronavirus) world, our chapter events for the Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS) Houston chapter would in-person local events and probably limited to legal professionals in Houston and surrounding areas. In this one-hour webcast that’s CLE-approved for 0.75

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Using Data De-Identification to Protect Companies

Data Matters

Many companies hope to benefit from amassing large amounts of data by mining it for market insights, creating internal business models, and supporting strategic, data-driven decisions. in the event of a data breach— and can help ensure that companies comply with many privacy laws. litigation discovery obligations. VIEW ARTICLE.

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