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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. By November 2013, Acidut was advertising the sale of “26 million SOCKS residential proxies.”

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How To Protect Yourself From Hackers

Cyber Info Veritas

Their main aim is to exploit your “mistakes and vulnerabilities” to blackmail you into sending them money or they’ll leak your private data. As computers and smart devices creep into every crevice of our life, the need to protect yourself from hackers has never been greater. Yes, there are bad and good hackers.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

Some technology trends such as real-time data analytics are on-going, while others are more recent, such as blockchain. This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. The “Art of the Possible” for the End-state.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Warning signs. Your web browser keeps redirecting you to unknown, suspicious websites.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

This was done with program music recorded on either perforated paper or in rare instances, metallic roles, sales of player pianos had peaked in 1924, and then declined as the improvements in phonograph recordings continued. She was 85 years old, but her story is still being told at conferences such as the chaos computing Congress and others.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. I don't kind of mix the two and I'm in charge of global sales operations, channel operations and go to market strategy. It was all this discovery on the internet that brought me to it.