Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. Earlier this year, for example, the group was tied to a particularly aggressive malware campaign that exploited recent vulnerabilities in widely-used networking products, including flaws in Cisco and D-Link routers, as well as Citrix and Pulse VPN appliances.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

It substantially follows the draft guidance, with some additional examples and pointers on where employers “must”, “should”, or “could” follow the approach laid out. Similarly, examples draw out the distinctions between workers who might expect intrusive monitoring in their employment and those who would not. Takeaways for employers 1.1

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IBM Big Data Hub

MARCH 27, 2024

Using LLMs for Scope 3 emissions estimation to speed time to insight One approach to estimating Scope 3 emissions is to leverage financial transaction data (for example, spend) as a proxy for emissions associated with goods and/or services purchased.

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Collibra

MARCH 12, 2024

For example, a number of BI tools now can integrate Python and R scripts, both of which are programming languages commonly used to create predictive models and machine learning algorithms. To see how advanced analytics augment traditional BI capabilities, let’s consider an example: analyzing customer churn.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 8, 2019

Avast spotted a new strain of Clipsa malware that is used to mine and steal cryptocurrencies along with carrying out brute-force attacks on WordPress sites. Clipsa is a malware that is well known to cyber security community is able to steal cryptocurrency via clipoard hijacking and mine cryptocurrency after installing a miner. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Experts pointed out that the bot doesn’t contain any offensive features, such as the ability to launch DDoS attacks or to mine cryptocurrency, a circumstance that suggests the malware is under development. The Attack function in the code is just a reserved empty function, and has not been implemented.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2023

Normally at this point, Experian’s website would present four or five multiple-guess questions, such as “Which of the following addresses have you lived at?” For example, there were four phone numbers on my Experian credit file: Only one of them was mine, and that one hasn’t been mine for ages.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 6, 2023

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. For example, is the problem related to declining revenue or production bottlenecks? as well as math, statistics, data visualization (to present the results to stakeholders) and data mining.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

. “ Illicit access to compromised or backdoored sites and databases is used by criminals for a number of activities, ranging from spam campaigns, to fraud, or cryptocurrency mining.” ” continues the report. “These compromises have also been used to gain access to corporate networks.

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Rocket Software

APRIL 17, 2019

I helped the students with their final presentations. Working with Rocketeers whose jobs don’t intersect with mine is exciting. During the presentation, the team tactfully described the glitch as a “surprise.” During the presentation, the team tactfully described the glitch as a “surprise.”

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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”. Clicking it leads to the victim downloading malware including OriginBotnet, RedLine Clipper and AgentTesla.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Xmrig is an open sourced Monero CPU Miner used to mine Monero cryptocurrency. Kinsing is a self-propagating crypto mining malware previously targeting misconfigured open Docker Daemon API ports. An example of the Linux ransomware proactively detected by our behavioral rules is shown below (See Figure 8). Coinminers.

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

This article shares some examples. 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”.

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erwin

MAY 7, 2020

Those that can mine it and extract value from it will be successful, from local organizations to international governments. Growth of non-relational models, 2008-present. For example, an “order” could be viewed one way by the sales department and another way to the accounting department. The Value of Data Architecture.

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Archive-It

AUGUST 10, 2023

In the second hour, Ruth Bryan, University Archivist from the University of Kentucky (UK) Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presented UK Libraries’ Wildcat Histories: Preserving Student Activist Social Media Content. Ruth Bryan wraps up her presentation with her colleagues who presented by video, Emily Collier and Taylor Leigh.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 3, 2021

In June, researchers with Sonatype, a supply chain security provider, found six malicious typosquatting packages in the repository that included crypto-mining malware. The administrators of the PyPI repository have had to address a range of security issues in recent months.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 6, 2023

The iPhone in 2007 is one example – a huge market was already using cell phones, but long-simmering improvements in chip technology and internet services combined with new consumer behaviors (remember the iPod?) So NeevaAI offered me a pretty impressive test result, but will its unique features be enough for Neeva to break through?

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AIIM

JUNE 16, 2020

For example, here are just a few of my personal favorites: State of the Content Services Industry (research) and How to Be GDPR Compliant (member toolkit). I co-presented a session at AIIM 2003. I included this last because it is the least valuable benefit I get from mine. The Cons of AIIM Professional Membership.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Another example also from Context Security was the vulnerability in CloudPets talking (and listening ) teddy bears that amounted to no auth on the Bluetooth allowing an attacker to take control of the toy. Are these examples actually risks in IoT? Or are they just the same old risks we've always had with data stored on the internet?

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CILIP

MARCH 19, 2021

A revelation came when she was asked to present her undergraduate dissertation (on ancient Greek art) in a multimedia project. ?That?s d borrowed from and donated to the library, and then we used large scale computing to mine that against all the books he?d Here the text mining is used to hunt down references. ?You s literature.

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Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2023

This presents a perfect opportunity to curb their environmental damage. The most blunt solution is to ban cryptocurrency mining altogether. China did this in 2018 , but it only made the problem worse; mining moved to other countries with even less efficient energy generation, and emissions went up.

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Brandeis Records Manager

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

With little, if any, coverage of this topic in our professional discourse, I only recently made this connection myself thanks to a librarian’s presentation on expanding info literacy. For example, typical library guidance for evaluating web sites lists the following five criteria: accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, and coverage.

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ChiefTech

MARCH 17, 2013

My BarCamp Canberra 2013 presentation, "Pragmatic Ethnography" tried to capture a little of my own professional experience of working in the field. I'm not a ethnographer by training and its not on my CV, but I realise that I have often (and increasingly) employed methods that are common to ethnography in my work. Is it always appropriate?

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CGI

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Imagine a situation where a third party gets hold of your metering data and, using data mining algorithms, and can detect your presence or absence and other household activities. works, I invite you to read my journal paper , which was presented for the proceedings of Energy Informatics held September 26-27 this year in Salzburg, Austria.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 13, 2019

To continue chucking up cookie warnings to everyone and somehow expecting them to make an informed decision about the risks they present? Want to see a perfect example? of people also have their language settings the same as mine. Ergo, a free choice must be offered. Is this really what we want? You can be tracked!":

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Robert's Db2

JUNE 30, 2023

I'll share these thoughts of mine in a two-part blog entry. The presenter said (in words to this effect, and with emphasis added by me), "As the leader of the Db2 for z/OS optimizer team, my message for application developers is this: job one for you is to write the query that will retrieve the data that your program needs.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Humans have used technology to transform their societies from prehistoric times up to the present. Finally, Part 3 will look to the future, will present next steps, and will discuss key takeaways. Society begrudgingly accepted the transformative changes, yet the changes moved society forward. Introduction.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

There, denizens with computer rigs that are built primarily for mining virtual currencies can set to work using those systems to crack passwords. But a decent crypto-mining rig can quickly crack a majority of password hashes generated with MD5 (one of the weaker and more commonly-used password hashing algorithms).

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Unwritten Record

MAY 3, 2022

Even in industries where women were not employed, such as coal mining, they often helped organize strikes. As an example of women’s contributions to labor in America, the film focuses mainly on women in the textile and garment industry. Clip from 86-General-2, Within the Gates.

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

With tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, businesses and organizations can collate and analyze large amounts of data reliably and more efficiently. Great examples are BMW Mini , Comfort Keepers, and Teleflora. Transforming Industries with Data Intelligence.

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CGI

AUGUST 16, 2013

A friend of mine once led an IT strategy consulting engagement for a UK company. For example, one of the strategic objectives was to increase sales volumes, but no-one had a reasonable projection of the likely growth, so sales were unwilling to accept higher targets. Dismiss business benefits at your peril: An IT strategy war story.

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Information Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

The market already has lots of tender portals but nobody has taken the tenders and contracts and turned them into an intelligent database which can be mined efficiently. As a content company, the key is to mine your own data to tell a story and then to promote that story as scaleably as possible on your website and those of your partners.

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Robert's Db2

JULY 15, 2011

Many of you have probably heard (I've said it a number of times in presentations myself) that starting with DB2 9 for z/OS "pure" sequential prefetch (what we just called sequential prefetch before dynamic prefetch came along) would only be used for table space scans.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 14, 2021

You see, Mills, you see cotton gins, you see mines that have shut down, you see places and every now and then there's somewhat of a success story. Daniel: Due to some labor disputes, and, you know, mining, even open pit mining, is a rough job. For example, The Beatles’ “Revolution” was a b-side.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

SAIF (Safety, Analytics and Investigation Framework) for example operates with everteam.iFile , a full-featured secured solution that supports key business processes and workflows. This Anti-corruption software is developed specifically to detect and respond to fraud, including data mining for data sets and administrative procedures.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 27, 2021

We here at eSecurity Planet have our own views and methodology on this much-debated issue, and present to you our reviews of the Best Antivirus Software of 2021. Detection Using Machine Learning and Data Mining. Top 4 antivirus software. Bitdefender. Other AV contenders. Bitdefender Total Security.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Humans have used technology to transform their societies from prehistoric times up to the present. Finally, Part 3 will look to the future, will present next steps, and will discuss key takeaways. See Table 1 listing some common examples of the “art of the possible. Introduction.

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