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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. The original MusicPlasma interface.

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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service. A 2012 sales thread on Darkode for Rev Locker. indictment of Philbert (PDF) is unusually sparse, but it does charge him with conspiracy, suggesting the defendant was part of a group.

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WeSteal, a shameless commodity cryptocurrency stealer available for sale

Security Affairs

They will often describe potential “legitimate” uses for their malware – only to further describe anti-malware evasion properties, silent installation and operation or features such as cryptocurrency mining, password theft or disabling webcam lights.” ” reads the post published by Palo Alto Networks. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Life at ForAllSecure: Shawn Santos, Director of Sales

ForAllSecure

For this month’s profile, we talked with Shawn Santos, Director of Sales at ForAllSecure, who joined the company in September, 2022 and is based out of Springfield, Massachusetts. Tell our readers a little bit about what your role as Director of Sales entails. I graduated college in 2010 and started a sales career.

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Monetizing Analytics Features: Why Data Visualizations Will Never Be Enough

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your embedded analytics. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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

The Last Watchdog

I recently attended an IoActive-sponsored event in Seattle at which Pegueros gave a presentation titled: “Merging Cybersecurity, the Board & Executive Team” Pegueros shed light on the land mines that enshroud cybersecurity presentations made at the board level.

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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.