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Ghost Blogging Platform Hacked To Mine Cryptocurrency

Adam Levin

Hackers successfully breached the servers of a popular blogging platform and used them to mine cryptocurrency. Ghost, a Singapore-based blogging platform with 2,000,000 installations and 750,000 active users, announced that hackers had breached their systems. .

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NEW TECH: LogicHub introduces ‘virtualized’ security analysts to help elevate SOAR

The Last Watchdog

SOAR vendors purport to do this by leveraging automation in more sophisticated ways to help enterprises and MSSPs cull the vast data flows that inundate modern business networks. In this milieu, even well-defended enterprises continue to suffer catastrophic data breaches. based LogicHub. But that hasn’t been enough.

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Stealing computing power: A growing trend in cyber crime that can target all Internet-connected devices

CGI

A new and quickly spreading phenomenon is to steal computing power to mine cryptocurrencies. What is most alarming is that, in addition to advanced cyber attacks aimed at elaborate systems, criminals will use any device connected to the Internet – for example, your mobile phone or a remotely controlled heat pump.

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On the Twitter Hack

Schneier on Security

Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system administrators. Do you know how secure your data is on Facebook, or in Apple's iCloud, or anywhere? Your guess is as good as mine. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Are they manual?