Troy Hunt

JUNE 26, 2020

Amidst all that, I've well and truly gone down the IoT rabbit hole with all sorts of bits now connected through Home Assistant (just understanding the basics of this is actually one of those draft blog posts I mentioned). All that, the usual data breach stuff and more in this week's update. Installs in 5 minutes. Protects forever.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter ) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2018

Earlier August, experts uncovered a massive crypto jacking campaign that was targeting MikroTik routers to inject a Coinhive cryptocurrency mining script in the web traffic. In September thousands of unpatched MikroTik Routers were involved in new cryptocurrency mining campaigns.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 27, 2024

However, while spend-based commodity-class level data presents an opportunity to help address the difficulties associates with Scope 3 emissions accounting, manually mapping high volumes of financial ledger entries to commodity classes is an exceptionally time-consuming, error-prone process.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. Get started The post Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023 appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Uptycs has already shared details about remediation and detection steps for its customers in the previous blog. In this blog post, we will talk about various malware categories that attackers are taking advantage of the Log4j vulnerability. Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Coinminers.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2022

The phishing messages sent to the journalists contained a link to ZIP archives containing LNK files, both named ‘Kang Min-chol edits’ (Kang Min-chol is North Korea’s Minister of Mining Industries). “Based on the presented analysis, the GOLDBACKDOOR malware shares strong technical overlaps with the BLUELIGHT malware.

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2022

On executing the above shell script (hash: 05a65e666492dd8ec5ab0985e5395967bc7bed03e9aaca11cdb9351873093382), the Xmrig miner gets downloaded from github and mining gets started (see Figure 8). The main objective of kinsing is to mine cryptocurrency on the vulnerable servers. Figure 9: xmrig getting downloaded. Conclusion.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

com , a cryptocurrency mining service that has been heavily abused to force hacked Web sites to mine virtual currency. A message posted to the Coinhive blog on Tuesday, Feb. Trouble was, killing the key did nothing to stop Coinhive’s code from continuing to mine Monero on a hacked site. com (not safe for work).

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Rocket Software

APRIL 17, 2019

I helped the students with their final presentations. Working with Rocketeers whose jobs don’t intersect with mine is exciting. During the presentation, the team tactfully described the glitch as a “surprise.” (If you need any bulk Lego, cheap, let me know!) Now for the less obvious reasons.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2021

Most recently, the PyPI group sent out fixes for three vulnerabilities that were discovered by security researcher RyotaK and published on his blog. The vulnerabilities described in this article had a significant impact on the Python ecosystem,” RyotaK wrote in the blog post. “As

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IBM Big Data Hub

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In today’s digital age where data stands as a prized asset, generative AI serves as the transformative tool to mine its potential. Scaling AI in business presents unique challenges: Data accessibility : Fragmented and siloed data stifle advancement.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. as well as math, statistics, data visualization (to present the results to stakeholders) and data mining. appeared first on IBM Blog.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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Archive-It

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Louis, MO November 15- 17 : Fantastic Futures — Vancouver, BC What we’re reading Scholarly Use of Web Archives Across Ireland: The Past, Present & Future(s) Sharon Healy (Maynooth University) and Helena Byrne (British Library) summarize the landscape of web archives based across Ireland and the challenges they have faced in this WARCnet report.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 8, 2019

The adware applications were linked together by the use of third-party Android libraries, which bypass the background service restrictions present in newer Android versions. This column originally appeared on Avast Blog.) . The bypassing itself is not explicitly forbidden on Play Store.

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Archive-It

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Visualization presented at the Humanities and the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis, November 14, 2022, Los Angeles Public Library. To learn more about the workshop, check out this blog post. You can read more about this feature in our blog post Feature Spotlight: Sharing Seeds. by the Archive-It team.

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erwin

MAY 7, 2020

Those that can mine it and extract value from it will be successful, from local organizations to international governments. Growth of non-relational models, 2008-present. Whereas a data architect’s scope, is mostly limited to the “What”(data), and from a system model/logical (level 3) perspective. The Value of Data Architecture.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

In the second hour, Ruth Bryan, University Archivist from the University of Kentucky (UK) Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presented UK Libraries’ Wildcat Histories: Preserving Student Activist Social Media Content. Ruth Bryan wraps up her presentation with her colleagues who presented by video, Emily Collier and Taylor Leigh.

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OpenText Information Management

MARCH 6, 2019

Although presenting word alternatives may sound simple, NLP is a very complex branch of artificial intelligence (AI). appeared first on OpenText Blogs. If you’ve ever used predictive text – the technology that enables words suggestions as you start typing a word – then you’ve experienced natural language processing (NLP).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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Rocket Software

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Or Uncle Cecil’s woodworking tools that your son is presently using to carve a duck in the backyard. The post Why “Legacy” Shouldn’t Be a Bad Word appeared first on The Rocket Software Blog. The image I like to evoke isn’t one of Grannie’s musty china that may look pretty on your Thanksgiving table.

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CGI

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

This blog describes these privacy concerns as well as a potential solution to address them. Imagine a situation where a third party gets hold of your metering data and, using data mining algorithms, and can detect your presence or absence and other household activities. Blog moderation guidelines and term of use.

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CGI

MAY 13, 2018

As presented in Section 3, when it comes to operationalizing blockchain technology, solution selection means much more than just which of the ever-growing list of blockchain technologies to choose. For a commercial industry perspective on this topic, see my colleague Steve Smith’s blog, Is blockchain a solution for your organization?

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

This is the old ChiefTech blog. However, you need to come over and see my new blog at chieftech.com.au. Disclaimer: Information on this blog is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion. Pipes at 9:09 PM View blog reactions 3comments: Janet Johnson said. Nice of you to drop in and visit. Stay tuned.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 27, 2014

appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Twitter has always appealed to tinkerers, to makers, to the people who first took up blogging, who championed RSS and HTML in the early days – you know, the people who created the open web. appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. “Please do.”

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Apple Insider seems to have had better luck, reporting that it hadn’t “been randomly presented with any two-factor authentications on Saturday even following OS updates to an iPhone XS Max, an iPhone X, and two sixth-generation iPads, but was able to force the issue on a new device. Well, that’ll do for this week.

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 30, 2023

I'll share these thoughts of mine in a two-part blog entry. The presenter said (in words to this effect, and with emphasis added by me), "As the leader of the Db2 for z/OS optimizer team, my message for application developers is this: job one for you is to write the query that will retrieve the data that your program needs.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 13, 2019

To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? of people also have their language settings the same as mine. Ergo, a free choice must be offered. Is this really what we want? of people have the same user agent string as me. Less than 0.1%

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John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 25, 2014

The post NewCo New York 2014: My Chairman’s Picks To Visit appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. so I don’t know who is presenting, but it doesn’t matter – I want to get smart about this company once again. Last week I created my schedule for NewCo San Francisco, and wrote about them here.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The content in this blog reflects the opinions of the author, and not of Brandeis University.). With little, if any, coverage of this topic in our professional discourse, I only recently made this connection myself thanks to a librarian’s presentation on expanding info literacy. George Despres, CRM. A 1989 report by the U.S.

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CGI

AUGUST 16, 2013

A friend of mine once led an IT strategy consulting engagement for a UK company. There were numerous problems along the way (which I’ll report on in other war stories) but the outputs all arrived on time, and the team began preparing for its final presentations to the executive committee, and then the board. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com.

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ChiefTech

APRIL 8, 2008

This is the old ChiefTech blog. However, you need to come over and see my new blog at chieftech.com.au. Disclaimer: Information on this blog is of a general nature and represents my own independent opinion. at 8:50 AM View blog reactions 3comments: Janet said. Nice of you to drop in and visit. ©2005-2009.

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

With tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, businesses and organizations can collate and analyze large amounts of data reliably and more efficiently. Data intelligence can take raw, untimely, and incomprehensible data and present it in an aggregated, condensed, digestible, and usable information.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2020 Clearly it was never TP-Link's intention for people to use their plugs in the fashion HA presently is and I'll talk more about why HA does this in the next section of this post.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 15, 2020

Another thing we've learned doing these sessions is that you've got to have the right communication channels that encourage not just discussion with us as presenters, but between the workshop attendees themselves.

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