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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

Mine was 0311 which was an infantry rifleman, and I was sent off for advanced infantry training. Wilson Hicks who was the former executive editor of Life Magazine. I met him in his role as advisor to student publications, primarily the Ibis yearbook, Tempo magazine, and Hurricane newspaper.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

I'm a contributing editor at PC World Magazine. So in this episode, I'm going to share some of the conversations I've had with leaders of some of those more established villages over the last 50 episodes of the hacker mine. I'm also a blogger@forbes.com. I've also written the book which I'll get to in a moment.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. We lost money on shares. We missed opportunities that would have yielded amazing results.

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Could Beto O’Rourke become the first US President with a past of hacking?

Security Affairs

O’Rourke, 46, was a member of the Cult of the Dead Cow in the late 1980s when he was going online with the moniker “Psychedelic Warlord,” he also contributed to electronic magazines published online decades earlier by the hacker group. This happiness was mine by right. They were happy, happy to be free from their troubles….