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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: The Circle of Computing Life

ChiefTech

Sunday, 1 July 2007 The Circle of Computing Life I came across a great book a few weekends ago, called A Computer Called LEO , that tells the story of the first computer to be used by business. The first LEO or ""Lyons Electronic Office" consisted of: " 5,936 valves, plus another 300-400 in auxiliary equipment.

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Careers In Health Information Technology

Information Governance Perspectives

Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving computer hardware and software that deals with storing, retrieving, sharing, and using healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. What is Health Information Technology? What’s it like to work in this field?

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A short history of intranets and what's next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

The popularity of the World Wide Web also helped to drive the eventual dominance of the Internet Protocol (IP) stack over other proprietary networking protocols, so both the Internet and private computer networks ended up using the same basic technologies for connecting systems and computers together. What is an intranet?

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A short history of intranets and what next with social, mobile and cloud

ChiefTech

The popularity of the World Wide Web also helped to drive the eventual dominance of the Internet Protocol (IP) stack over other proprietary networking protocols, so both the Internet and private computer networks ended up using the same basic technologies for connecting systems and computers together. What is an intranet?

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European Data Privacy Day Expert Panel Provides 30-Year Retrospective on UK Data Protection

Hunton Privacy

The system required controllers to complete lengthy questionnaires, reflecting the fact that, at that time, data processing took place on a handful of large mainframe computers. These included biometric national ID cards, ContactPoint (a proposed database of every child in the UK) and the electronic register of national health records.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Galperin is the current Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and noted free speech advocate. If the US government dictating iPhone encryption design sounds ok to you, ask yourself how you'll feel when China demands the same. October is now BGP Awareness Month. — Eva (@evacide) October 4, 2021.