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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. I Want To Mine This raises much larger issues about how – or whether – we are intelligently architecting the possibilities that define our interaction with knowledge. It drove music sales, after all.

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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance about what directors need to hear from CISOs — from a board member

The Last Watchdog

CISOs can sometimes be their own worst enemy, especially when it comes to communicating with the board of directors. If the CISO wants to drive better compliance, then they talk about how compliance is key to enabling sales and how the customers are demanding compliance to do business with the company.

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Conti Ransomware Group Diaries, Part IV: Cryptocrime

Krebs on Security

On June 6, 2021, Conti underling “ Begemot ” pitched Stern on a scheme to rip off a bunch of people mining virtual currencies, by launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against a cryptocurrency mining pool. Find a place where crypto holders communicate (discord, etc. ). Most likely it will be IPv6.

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How ‘digital transformation’ gave birth to a new breed of criminal: ‘machine-identity thieves’

The Last Watchdog

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. This is because the digital wizardry driving modern society relies heavily on machine-to-machine communications.

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The Difference Between Data Architecture and Enterprise Architecture

erwin

Those that can mine it and extract value from it will be successful, from local organizations to international governments. It helps you understand data assets visually and provides a formal practice to discover, analyze and communicate the assets within an organization. The Value of Data Architecture. Without it, progress will halt.

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Selling and utilising personal data in an insolvency situation

Data Protection Report

There are two ways that a purchaser may try to benefit from a distressed business’ customer list: 1) by buying the share capital of the company (a share sale); and 2) by buying the customer list as a standalone asset (an asset sale). Share sales. Asset sales. Can this be done? It depends.

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FreakOut botnet target 3 recent flaws to compromise Linux devices

Security Affairs

The attacks aimed at compromising the tarted systems to create an IRC botnet, which can later be used to conduct several malicious activities, including DDoS attacks and crypto-mining campaign. Supports multi-threaded communication to other devices. ” continues the analysis. Pierluigi Paganini.

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