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Mine, Mine, All Mine

John Battelle's Searchblog

Author’s musical preferences not included… No Longer Mine When I write, I like to listen to music. I Want To Mine This raises much larger issues about how – or whether – we are intelligently architecting the possibilities that define our interaction with knowledge. It drove music sales, after all.

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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance about what directors need to hear from CISOs — from a board member

The Last Watchdog

She serves on the board of several technology companies and also happens to be steeped in cyber risk governance. If the CISO wants to drive better compliance, then they talk about how compliance is key to enabling sales and how the customers are demanding compliance to do business with the company.

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Indeed, while anonymity provides privacy and security for transactions, it can also be exploited by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering , drug trafficking, illegal arms sales, and terrorist financing. Compromised websites and malware are often at the root of these types of attacks.

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Sopra Steria hit by the Ryuk ransomware gang

Security Affairs

Sopra Steria is a member of France’s Cyber Campus , a French initiative to spread cybersecurity awareness, training, and product sales. A few days before, EVRAZ , one of the world’s largest multinational vertically integrated steel making and mining companies, has been hit by the Ryuk ransomware.

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The Difference Between Data Architecture and Enterprise Architecture

erwin

Those that can mine it and extract value from it will be successful, from local organizations to international governments. 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. Without it, progress will halt.

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service.

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