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Cyber Security’s Impact on Climate Change: What Can Organisations Do?

IT Governance

Perhaps the most significant example of this is the Cloud. Then there’s blockchain mining. In the early days of bitcoin mining, individuals could create new bitcoins using a standard computer set-up, but the process has grown so complex that it now requires a room full of specialised tools. public Clouds and 2.7 private ones.

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How to unlock a scientific approach to change management with powerful data insights

IBM Big Data Hub

Grasping these opportunities at IBM, we’re increasingly building our specialism in process mining and data analysis tools and techniques we believe to be true ‘game changers’ when it comes to building cultures of continuous change and innovation. This means you can intervene with targeted change interventions to course correct more quickly.

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SHARED INTEL: A foolproof consumer’s guide to creating and managing bulletproof passwords

The Last Watchdog

Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. For example, all of your sites for social media would be in a category, all of your email sites together, all of your banking sites together, and all of your shopping sites together. Here’s an example.

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Threat Group TeamTNT Returns with New Cloud Attacks

eSecurity Planet

Such an approach is quite popular in the malware landscape, for example, with cryptominers. The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. This example shows the attack process can be automated and replicated infinitely. format(len(targets)). print 'TOTAL PROMISING TARGETS: {0}'.format(len(promisingTargets)).

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Cryptojacking campaign uses Shodan to scan for Docker hosts to hack

Security Affairs

“The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. As with all cryptocurrency miners, it uses the resources of the host system to mine cryptocurrency (Monero in this instance) without the owner’s knowledge.” ” continues the report.

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Acuity Who? Attempts and Failures to Attribute 437GB of Breached Data

Troy Hunt

Does that mean that Netflix, for example, provided customer data to this list? Slightly different column count to mine (and similar but different to the hacker forum post), and slightly different email count, but the similarities remain striking. So how many "Acuity" companies are out there in total?!

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New Linux Malware Shikitega Can Take Full Control of Devices

eSecurity Planet

Each module focuses on a unique task, for example, downloading and executing Metasploit meterpreter, escalating privileges on the targeted systems, and maintaining persistence. The infamous XMRig mines Monero cryptocurrency that is known to be anonymity-focused, as it’s particularly hard to trace back.

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