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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.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 326

Security Affairs

Do You Trust Your Smart TV? ransomware gang BlackMatter ransomware also targets VMware ESXi servers Conti ransomware affiliate leaked gang’s training material and tools Conti Leak Indicators – What to block, in your SOC…. If you want to also receive for free the international pre ss subscribe here.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 203 – News of the week

Security Affairs

CoinHive Cryptocurrency Mining Service will shut down on March 8, 2019. Cyber Defense Magazine – March 2019 has arrived. Cyber Command disrupted blocked Russian troll factory during 2018 midterms. Cisco WebEx Meetings affected by a new elevation of privilege flaw. PDF zero-day samples harvest user data when opened in Chrome.

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Twitter's Great Big Problem Is Its Massive Opportunity

John Battelle's Searchblog

One of the many reasons I find Twitter fascinating is that the company seems endlessly at an inflection point. Eighteen months ago I was tracking its inflection point in usage (holy shit, look how it's growing! Then, holy shit, has it stopped ?!), then its inflection in business model (hey, it doesn't have one ! But therein lies the rub.

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The Book Lives On

John Battelle's Searchblog

” We spoke on the phone and I learned that the intersection of society and data was her passion – and that her background was an awful lot like mine. My first project out of grad school was Wired magazine. In the post, I wrote: I love the book I’m working on, and I don’t plan to abandon it (I’m bringing on a co-author).

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Brands As Publishers - Part 2

John Battelle's Searchblog

Initially, the benefits of such moves were clear: profitable properties (a new revenue source), good lists to mine for direct response conversion (marketing efficiency), and a high quality environment in which to market your Brand (well-lit Brand environments). From it: what does it mean to have a good voice?

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Should businesses use collective intelligence and the wisdom of the crowds?

ChiefTech

Earlier in the year, a report was published of researchers who looked at mining Twitter to predict the success of movies. ” Others, like The Economist magazine, still see potential: search-volume forecasts will help spot consumer trends of this sort with increased precision. But the improvements they bring will be incremental.

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