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Employees abused systems at Ukrainian nuclear power plant to mine cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

The Ukrainian Secret Service is investigating the case of employees at a nuclear power plant that connected its system online to mine cryp tocurrency. On July 10, agents of the SBU raided the nuclear power plant and discovered the equipment used by the employees to mining cryptocurrency. ” reported ZDnet. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Chinese Antivirus Firm Was Part of APT41 ‘Supply Chain’ Attack

Krebs on Security

APT41’s activities span from the mid-2000s to the present day. ” The government alleges the group monetized its illicit access by deploying ransomware and “ cryptojacking ” tools (using compromised systems to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin).

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MY TAKE: The no. 1 reason ransomware attacks persist: companies overlook ‘unstructured data’

The Last Watchdog

Related video: Why it’s high time to protect unstructured data. Typical unstructured data includes a long list of files—emails, Word docs, social media, text files, job applications, text messages, digital photos, audio and visual files, spreadsheets, presentations, digital surveillance, traffic and weather data, and more.

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2023 Archive-It Partner Meeting Recap

Archive-It

In the second hour, Ruth Bryan, University Archivist from the University of Kentucky (UK) Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) presented UK Libraries’ Wildcat Histories: Preserving Student Activist Social Media Content. Ruth Bryan wraps up her presentation with her colleagues who presented by video, Emily Collier and Taylor Leigh.

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UK Information Commissioner’s Office Publishes Final Guidance On Employee Monitoring

Data Protection Report

For example, miners would expect to wear location tracking devices in the mine due to the risk of accidents, while office workers would not. The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is set to widen the circumstances where automated decision making can be used, but these restrictions remain in place at present.

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Neeva Combines AI and Search – Now Comes The Hard Part

John Battelle's Searchblog

.” I was struggling with my bike and years of habit taught me that there was likely a video buried somewhere on YouTube that would show me what I was doing wrong. Indeed, when I first entered that search into Google, I was presented with Google’s best guess at the answer: A YouTube video of a guy taking the rear wheel off a bike.

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Data science vs. machine learning: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Areas making up the data science field include mining, statistics, data analytics, data modeling, machine learning modeling and programming. as well as math, statistics, data visualization (to present the results to stakeholders) and data mining. It’s also necessary to understand data cleaning and processing techniques.