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LemonDuck Shows Malware Can Evolve, Putting Linux and Microsoft at Risk

eSecurity Planet

The LemonDuck malware that for the past couple of years has been known for its cryptocurrency mining and botnet capabilities is evolving into a much broader threat, moving into new areas of cyber attacks, targeting both Linux and Microsoft systems and expanding its geographical reach, according to security researchers with Microsoft.

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Financial Services Data – More at risk than you’d believe

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Another “canary in the coal mine” episode showcasing this trend happened just last week, with a sizeable breach of HSBC U.S. If this trend continues, going back to paper statements and a file cabinet won’t be enough to save my finances. banking customers. What’s driving these increases in breach rates? Thales has answers for you.

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Privacy and Security of Data at Universities

Schneier on Security

The boundaries between research and grey data are blurring, making it more difficult to assess the risks and responsibilities associated with any data collection. Commercial entities are besieging universities with requests for access to data or for partnerships to mine them.

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Adversarial ML Attack that Secretly Gives a Language Model a Point of View

Schneier on Security

Here’s the latest: a training-time attack that forces the model to exhibit a point of view: Spinning Language Models: Risks of Propaganda-As-A-Service and Countermeasures.” Systems like GPT-3 will make it easy for those AIs to mine previous conversations and related Internet content and to appear knowledgeable.

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Five Signs Your Enterprise Needs a Modern DevOps Solution, and What to Look for in One

Rocket Software

Considering all these factors, the risk of delays, failures and productivity loss is at an all-time high. If your solution doesn’t have this capacity, you run the risk of having to back out changes – assuming your solution has the ability to do this – and spend more resources fixing the problem.

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Illegal Content and the Blockchain

Schneier on Security

There’s the Bitcoin logo, and the original paper describing Bitcoin by its alleged founder, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto. Most Bitcoin mining happens in China. That’s not just a nuisance, but an existential risk to Bitcoin. There are digital images, including one of Nelson Mandela.

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Application modernization overview

IBM Big Data Hub

Generative AI-assisted API mapping called out in this paper is a mini exemplar of this. While the above is for application decomposition/design, event-storming needs process maps and this is where Generative AI assists in contextualizing and mapping extracts from process mining tools.

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