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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. ” We are glad to present you our services! From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a

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Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

Krebs on Security

The new app, now being used by agencies in several states, is the brainchild of computer scientists from the University of California San Diego and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , who say they developed the software in tandem with technical input from the U.S. A copy of their paper is available here (PDF).

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RMS Section Meeting Teaser #5

The Schedule

Reminder: our section meeting is free and it is set for Monday, July 27th at 3pm EST. Are Records Essential to Governance of Higher Education during a Crisis? In 2020, maintaining present college records is challenged on two fronts. Our next teaser is from panelist Eric Stoykovich of Trinity College!

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RMS annual meeting teaser #2

The Schedule

Another panelist who will be presenting during our annual meeting is Krista Oldham, University Archivist at Clemson University. My presentation will focus on sharing my experience getting to “the table” and the strategies I adopted to build relationships and deliver results that demonstrated why I needed to be “at the table.”.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. The meeting presenters try to spice things up.

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

In the NIS Directive, the obligations that apply to an entity that falls under the scope of the NIS Directive depend on its qualification as ‘operator of essential services’ (“OES”) or ‘digital service provider’ (“DSP”): An OES is defined as a public or private entity of a type referred to in Annex II, which meets certain criteria.

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Leveraging IBM Cloud for electronic design automation (EDA) workloads

IBM Big Data Hub

Electronic design automation (EDA) is a market segment consisting of software, hardware and services with the goal of assisting in the definition, planning, design, implementation, verification and subsequent manufacturing of semiconductor devices (or chips). The primary providers of this service are semiconductor foundries or fabs.

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