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Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018

Security Affairs

In 2017 there were ten times more than in 2016. “Overall for the period January 1 – July 2018, our Telnet honeypot registered more than 12 million attacks from 86,560 unique IP addresses, and malware was downloaded from 27,693 unique IP addresses.” Let me suggest to read to read the report , is full of interesting data.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. that the crooks were only able to mine a paltry $24 – which Coinhive refused to pay out anyway. Dixons Carphone admitted suffering a major data breach in July 2017, involving 5.9

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2017 Retrospective

Troy Hunt

" I've just re-read my 2016 retrospective and to the point about progress, I'm pretty stoked about what I've done since then ?? Things like the most popular posts: The Onliner Spambot post was more than twice as popular as the next biggest post and both the top 2 were about massive dumps of personal data on the web.

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