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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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Fuzzing Crypto

ForAllSecure

Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies. Vranken: Well, mining means cracking a puzzle, which has a certain amount of time and that takes like 10 seconds or something. So there are companies which only mine cryptocurrencies and they make money by this.

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Leaders need the technical detail

MIKE 2.0

Good examples of changes that are coming with more that is unknown than known include cyber currencies, blockchain, quantum computing, artificial intelligence, smart cities, augmented reality and additive manufacturing. These are some of the technologies that are likely to drive big decisions for leaders in the coming years.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.” So, at the outset, a good question to ask is What is DT ? Content can be delivered via a CSP.

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Forget C-I-A, Availability Is King

The Falcon's View

Consider, if you will, a cloud resource being compromised in order to run cryptocurrency mining. This example, of course, once again highlights how you can view things through a quantitative risk assessment perspective, too. The overarching point here is that the traditional status quo is a failed model.

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The Decreasing Usefulness of Positive Visual Security Indicators (and the Importance of Negative Ones)

Troy Hunt

And let's be fair to Barclays - it's not just them offering outdated and inaccurate advice about the true meaning of the padlock: Taking a mandatory Cyber Awareness Course. No, of course we shouldn't trust it and it's a perfect example of where a positive visual indicator is, in fact, misleading. But the option does not exist.

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

Krebs on Security

“It’s run by a fraud ring of cryptocurrency scammers who mine dating apps and other social media for victims and the scam is becoming alarmingly popular.” – No video: The scammers will come up with all kinds of excuses not to do a video call. Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com

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