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What Is Data Literacy?

erwin

Data Literacy Definition. Gartner defines data literacy as the ability to read, write and communicate data in context, including an understanding of data sources and constructs, analytical methods and techniques applied — and the ability to describe the use case, application and resulting value. So, what is data literacy?

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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages. I am definitely in this camp. Now I know why Experian has NEVER let me view my own file via their website. The easiest way to get yours is through annualcreditreport.com.

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else 11/25: The Collective Hallucination of Currency

John Battelle's Searchblog

Bitcoin mining operation. “These definitions do not restrict the use of pen registers or trap-and-trace devices to communication facilities associated with individual users, it is finding that these definitions encompass an exceptionally broad form of collection.” And tweet us links! ” N.S.A.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

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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"The Information" by James Gleick

John Battelle's Searchblog

Gleick traces the narrative of information from the first stirrings of alphabet-based communication to the explosion of academic excitement that accompanied the rise of "Information Science" and "Information Theory" in the mid to late 20th century. Reviews of The Information are mostly raves, and I have to add mine to the pile.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

I don't know maybe purple team a bit, I played kind of both sides of the fence but yeah definitely do a lot of adversarial inspection of, you know, any kind of traffic endpoints that I find that our customers. So it's typically computer to computer communication. It simplifies communication. Again, at a very high level.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking APIs

ForAllSecure

I don't know maybe purple team a bit, I played kind of both sides of the fence but yeah definitely do a lot of adversarial inspection of, you know, any kind of traffic endpoints that I find that our customers. So it's typically computer to computer communication. It simplifies communication. Again, at a very high level.