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Mine, Mine, All Mine

John Battelle's Searchblog

Author’s musical preferences not included… No Longer Mine When I write, I like to listen to music. If they change course, or – perish the thought – if they fail, well, what then? In short, everything could be minedmined for insights, for value, for untold usefulness.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for September 2023

IT Governance

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”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Schneier on Security

But none of this, so far, appears to seriously threaten those in power in governments and corporations. Imagine someone using this idea to evade government censorship. Most Bitcoin mining happens in China. Bitcoin and blockchains like it are on a collision course with these laws. But there is no such world.

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US Supreme Court expands digital privacy rights in Carpenter v. United States

Data Protection Report

United States, holding that the federal government needs a warrant to access cellphone location records. At issue in Carpenter was the government’s warrantless collection of historical cellphone location records. The Court disagreed with the government and sided with Carpenter.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: How To Get Paid To Hack

ForAllSecure

You could, of course, sell your skillz to the dark web. And in this hacker mine episode, I'm going to be giving some practical insight around the world of bug bounties through the eyes of various hackers I have previously interviewed on the show. But of course software is complex, and these bugs do happen. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

This is the story of a film star who connected the simple concept behind a player piano to complex communication technology in use in our devices today. A lot of modern communications, for example, have their origins in the 19th century, such as the telegraph, which required wires to be strung around the world.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.