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“Beyond the border scam”, pay attention to the instance of the new Nigerian fraud

Security Affairs

Following up on the electronic letter, the alleged widow begins a copious correspondence in which she says she was left completely alone after the death of her husband and children and without a home or money and hosted in a border refugee camp, where she feeds herself. during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022.

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Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Security Affairs

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware.

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Is email really the nemesis of better collaboration software?

ChiefTech

Collaboration software, including the latest generation of enterprise social software, is often put forward as a more effective alternative to email-based communication. Competition from other easier to use communication technologies. 1989, 'Big Brother in a Laptop', CIO magazine, May 1989, p.22. In 1987, David J.

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Summary – “Industry in One: Financial Services”

ARMA International

Additionally, the article is included in Information Management Magazine, ARMA-AIEF Special Edition , which will be available for download in mid-November. Electronic Communications Retention and Supervision. This article summarizes a report published by AIEF on June 26, 2019. to enable the most control over the data.

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Arup Library: 60 years

CILIP

the librarian residing in the basement surrounded by piles of books and magazines? Arup Library in the Electronic Age. This followed the successful transfer of Arup job records to a DEC10 Mainframe computer in 1978, which greatly sped up the data handling managed by the library. In 1968, Peter Hoggett took over Arup Library.

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A short history of intranets and what's next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

The popularity of the World Wide Web also helped to drive the eventual dominance of the Internet Protocol (IP) stack over other proprietary networking protocols, so both the Internet and private computer networks ended up using the same basic technologies for connecting systems and computers together. What is an intranet?

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computer model to deliver transformative change. A cloud-first “mind-shift” implies using a cloud computing model, which exposes an organization to risks on the Internet, where data is considered “digital gold” that cyber criminals want to steal. 2020, p 6).