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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. KG Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing Germany Yes 1.1 TB Halara Cannabis Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes >1,000,000 Proax Technologies Ltd. 79 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. Organisation Sector Location Data breached?

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5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019

Security Affairs

Yet, the major attack of 2018 was definitely VPNFilter, hitting over half a million devices, mostly routers, from a wide range of known vendors. not located behind routers or firewalls) to conduct future DDoS attacks on data centers and cloud services or for crypto currency mining purposes. Three IoT Attack Avenues for 2019.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates. Can you imagine your parents VLAN'ing their IoT things? It's painful enough for me!

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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.” Information and data are synonyms but have different definitions. Information and Content Explosion. Data Analytics.

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#ModernDataMasters: Mike Evans, Chief Technology Officer

Reltio

A passion of mine is imparting the knowledge and experience that the data leaders of today possess to the next generation of data professionals. The definition of success, from my perspective as a manager of a consulting organisation, is our clients achieving the business benefit they want and being delighted with our services.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: How To Get Paid To Hack

ForAllSecure

And in this hacker mine episode, I'm going to be giving some practical insight around the world of bug bounties through the eyes of various hackers I have previously interviewed on the show. And I definitely have fun doing it. Vamosi: Welcome to the hacker mind that original podcast from for all secure. I'm Robert Vamosi.

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