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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

Charging documents say the seven men are part of a hacking group known variously as “ APT41 ,” “ Barium ,” “ Winnti ,” “ Wicked Panda ,” and “ Wicked Spider.” One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI.

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Google disrupts the Glupteba botnet

Security Affairs

The botnet was involved in stealing users’ credentials and data, mining cryptocurrencies abusing victims’ resources, and setting up proxies to funnel other people’s internet traffic through infected machines and routers. In court documents [ PDF ], Google names Dmitry Starovikov and Alexander Filippov as two of Glupteba’s creators.

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Embeddable AI saves time building powerful AI applications

IBM Big Data Hub

With embeddable AI, you get a set of flexible, fit-for-purpose AI models that developers can use to provide enhanced end-user experiences—like, automatically transcribing voice messages and video conferences to text. Users can then mine the data using simple keyword searches to find the information they need.

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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

The first phase is also adjusted to start with the capture of documents—this is the moment when a document is first stored in an information system (i.e., a new document is created, scanned, or uploaded into an information system). Extra Phases. Collaboration. Retention / Storage. Holds / Discovery.

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2023 Archive-It Partner Meeting Recap

Archive-It

Then Taylor Leigh spoke to us on video specifically to the Wildcats Histories project funded by that grant that engaged with the student activist population through web archiving workshops, exhibits, and documenting their content creation. Karl Blumenthal demonstrates Voyant for text mining analysis on ARCH datasets.

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UK Information Commissioner’s Office Publishes Final Guidance On Employee Monitoring

Data Protection Report

For example, miners would expect to wear location tracking devices in the mine due to the risk of accidents, while office workers would not. Where more than one lawful basis might apply, organisations should identify and document them from the start. This is considered important for transparency and building trust.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. as highlighted in the video above. A very recent example of such behavior is the rise of abusing cloud services such as Google Cloud to mine cryptocurrencies in response to the surge of bitcoin price late 2017.

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