Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2018

As long as the adb tools is being used in a secured environment, it presents little risk. ” The binary establishes a connection to the C&C server, then scans processes running on the compromised device and attempts to kill any that are running the CoinHive script that could be mining Monero. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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CGI

JULY 5, 2018

A new and quickly spreading phenomenon is to steal computing power to mine cryptocurrencies. Cryptocurrency mining uses a lot of computing power and electricity because the mathematical problems connected to mining are difficult to solve. If you pay for the electricity and devices you use, mining will be costly.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Benefits Present Value (PV) of $3.43M and Net Present Value (NPV) of $2.42M Three-year benefits include higher growth through better customer experience of $1.76M , automation-driven productivity gains of $1.20M , and data-driven operational improvements of $473K What is IBM Db2 (LUW)?

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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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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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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Enabling true transformation You’re on the lookout for adoption of industry best practices along with the capabilities of process mining and process discovery to both simplify and standardize the process flows.

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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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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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Troy Hunt

JUNE 30, 2022

SHA-1 is Just Fine for k-Anonymity Let's begin with the actual problem SHA-1 presents. Every time this very blog loads Font Awesome from Cloudflare's CDN, for example, it's verified against the hash in the integrity attribute of the script tag (view source for yourself). is the middle one.

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 15, 2024

This means developers building AI/ML or data mining applications for business once the abstraction layer is ready without worrying about where the data is physically stored or its specific storage details. They can focus on designing the core logic of their models without getting bogged down in data management complexities.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 25, 2021

I had this idea out of nowhere the other day that I should have a visual display somewhere in my office showing how many active Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) subscribers I presently have. Full blog post coming in a moment. ?? I'm not sure exactly, it just seemed like a good idea at the time.

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Rocket Software

AUGUST 14, 2020

Rocket has become a leader in the open-source community, and hopefully, with innovations like mine, we can further make a mark in the open-source world and encourage the next generation of developers to use DB2. It doesn’t matter if you fail; just try to give it your best and present your project in a meaningful way. HAPPY CODING!

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2021

In that blog post I included the code Scott Helme had de-obfuscated which showed a very simple bit of JavaScript, really just the inclusion of a.js Every site that had Coinhive running on it, either by the design of the site owner or at the whim of a cryptojacker, stopped mining Monero. Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+apollohobo/1.0.0+Chrome/58.0.3029.110+Electron/1.7.9+Safari/537.36

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

My views on certificate authority shenanigans spinning yarns on EV are well known after having done many talks on the topic and written many blog posts, most recently in August 2019 after both Chrome and Firefox announced they were killing it. Instead, the digicert-secured.com domain is mine. Let's tear it apart bit by bit.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 27, 2021

Their goal here is perfectly aligned with mine and, I dare say, with the goals of most people reading this: to protect people from account takeovers by proactively warning them when their password has been compromised. Feeding these passwords into HIBP gives the FBI the opportunity to do this almost 1 billion times every month.

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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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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

This is going to be a lengthy blog post so let me use this opening paragraph as a summary of where Project Svalbard is at : Have I Been Pwned is no longer being sold and I will continue running it independently. Per the Project Svalbard announcement blog post, I engaged KPMG to run the merger and acquisition (M&A) process for me.

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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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