Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Alrighty, quickie intro before I rush off to hit the tennis court, catch up with old friends, onto the wake park before BBQ and, of course, ??. References We're tracking remarkably well down here COVID wise (and yes, I'm very conscious of how different it is in other parts of the world right now, thoughts are with you guys) Guitar lessons! (ok,

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Of course, there are many more possibilities.”. The Mozi botnet continues to spread despite the arrest of its alleged author and experts believe that it will run for many other years. Mozi is an IoT botnet that borrows the code from Mirai variants and the Gafgyt malware , it appeared on the threat landscape in late 2019.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. Starting from the top: Focusing on the right change and making it feel right.

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AIIM

MARCH 19, 2020

I delivered the first AIIM public training course in the U.S. Since then, I've delivered more than 400 workshops, seminars, breakout sessions, and training courses relating to information management – almost all in person. It's also a personal belief of mine to make the most of any situation you find yourself in.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2019

“The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. . “The script then calls a Monero coin-mining binary, darwin (detected as PUA.Linux.XMRMiner.AA), to run in the background. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. I have spent 30-plus years in the tech and media industries, mainly as a journalist, observer, and founder of companies that either make or support journalism and storytelling. For whatever reason, I did this by founding or co-founding companies.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Most of the unstructured data generated in the course of conducting digital commerce doesn’t get stored in a database or any other formal management system. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. Related video: Why it’s high time to protect unstructured data. Delete data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2020

“According to our sources, the incident started to spread during the course of last night. A few days before, EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. More recently, it has mainly distributed the JSSLoader malware for the Sangria Tempest group.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The infamous XMRig mines Monero cryptocurrency that is known to be anonymity-focused, as it’s particularly hard to trace back. Of course, it can be hard to keep pace with the release cycles, and updates can introduce nasty regressions and bugs. Five Scripts Provide Persistence.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” ” Cyber criminals also targeted crypto-mining firm NiceHash with the same technique and successfully carried out a DNS hijacking attack.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. It can be a real hassle to keep track of the passwords you use. So many people use the same combination of username and password for every account. However, this isn’t a good idea. In fact, it’s terrible.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The member libraries needed a way to preserve, store, and provide access to important digital objects such as archival materials, special collections, theses and dissertations, institutional materials (such as course catalogs, images, records), and more.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

That's the context that accompanied a massive trove of data that was sent to me 2 years ago now. I looked into it, tried to attribute and verify it then put it in the "too hard basket" and moved onto more pressing issues. One of the first things I do after receiving a data breach is to literally just Google it: acuity data breach.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

This, of course, is a tall task. What we’re seeing is they’re going in and taking a bank’s good application and wrapping a crypto currency mining app around it. LW: It’s the actual banking app, wrapped up with a crypto mining functionality on it? But right now, crypto mining is where the money is.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Language-training school ASTEX , based in Madrid, Spain, has seen student careers skyrocket after they completed its courses. Users can then mine the data using simple keyword searches to find the information they need. But what is embeddable AI, and what are its uses? Think of embeddable AI as an engine.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. Of course, it depends on the usage, but it’s unlikely you need more than one fourth or one third of the total CPU in most cases. Such an approach is quite popular in the malware landscape, for example, with cryptominers.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. I mentioned cyber criminals’ increasing use of cryptocurrency mining or ‘cryptomining’ software a couple of weeks ago.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

This includes defining the product scope of the DT journey and the digital products and services that will deliver transformative change for a new future. Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. One essential step is developing the DT business case and connecting it with the critical success factors (CSFs) and the product scope.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2012

Is it normal for sites like mine to have.0017 That’s always been the problem publishers have had with RSS – it’s impossible to monetize. That’s always been the problem publishers have had with RSS – it’s impossible to monetize. I mean, think about it. And this was *before* it had a business model.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It mines data, customizes interactions and is continuously learning. “ *Insert Name*, transferring you to one of our agents who can answer your question about coverage abroad.” . Of course, like Watson, leading businesses are constantly learning, analyzing, and striving to become better. Customer engagement also increased by 40%.

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

Similarly, the European Commission’s assessment of the evidence around its future text and data mining rules noted rightholders’ claim that an exception would “facilitate the misuse and piracy of their content and make them lose business opportunities in future”. It exists with the generous support of the Arcadia Fund.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

The delivery of malicious code through advertising supply chains is an insidious attack spanning over the course of 15 years. They essentially need a basic understanding of device API documentation, some capability with JavaScript and low-level online advertising skills. The attack itself is low-cost with little sophistication.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. Every type of attack on a government entity will have an impact, of course, but with the midterm election looming, there is a lot of concern about whether or not local and state governments will be able to prevent election tampering.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

The problem, of course, is that while Twitter makes it nearly effortless for folks to publish their own thoughts, it has done far too little to help those same folks glean value from the thoughts of others. One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point. But therein lies the rub.

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CGI

AUGUST 16, 2013

A friend of mine once led an IT strategy consulting engagement for a UK company. This was always a risk of course, but we often assume that our sponsors will carry investment cases over the line through their personal credibility, or through sheer force of personality. Dismiss business benefits at your peril: An IT strategy war story.

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

s tried and tested safety mechanisms? ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. And if they?re re more worried about reputational risk than the benefit they might bring to their audience, there is a problem. Because is it really copyright ? the right of the author ? re worried about?? ?Being t even know if you?re

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source (New) Software Luxembourg Yes 3,600,000 National Automobile Dealers Association Source (New) Retail USA Yes 1,065,000 Consórcio Canopus Source (New) Professional services Brazil Yes 1,400,000 The Teaching Company (Wondrium by The Great Courses) Source (New) Education USA Yes 1.3 Data breached: >10 million records.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

“Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.” ” continues the analysis.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 14, 2018

About six months ago, I got an email from a good friend of mine, who I’ll call Alex (not his real name). Did you know that every zebra has its own unique stripe pattern? Just like a human fingerprint, every zebra can be identified by their distinctive set of stripes. Wait a minute. Let me look at that message again.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 1, 2011

I considered myself one of them, of course, but I also kept a bit apart - it's one reason I live up in Marin, and not down in the Silicon Valley. But as I scanned the room last night and watched those friends of mine, I realized that each of them was now involved in an Internet startup in some way or another. Why did I do that?

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Generative AI becomes very handy here through its ability to correlate domain/functional capabilities to code and data and establish business capabilities view and connected application code and data—of course the models need to be tuned/contextualized for a given enterprise domain model or functional capability map.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Through the course of this year, Gartner forecasts that the infosec market will climb 9 percent to $124 billion. Targeting one device. percent, according to tech consultancy Gartner. Use a password manager.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

It mines data, customizes interactions and is continuously learning. “ *Insert Name*, transferring you to one of our agents who can answer your question about coverage abroad.” . Of course, like Watson, leading businesses are constantly learning, analyzing, and striving to become better.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Most Bitcoin mining happens in China. Security researchers have recently discovered a botnet with a novel defense against takedowns. Normally, authorities can disable a botnet by taking over its command-and-control server. With nowhere to go for instructions, the botnet is rendered useless. That’s how the system works.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 7, 2016

See below… If your business focus is in technology or the Internet, as mine has been for nearly three decades, it’s quite possible you’ve never heard of the GLOBE Series , a global conference dedicated to sustainability in business. The post On Tech Leadership appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.

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