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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

According to cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 , that dark_cl0ud6@hotmail.com address has been used in conjunction with the handle “ DCReavers2 ” to register user accounts on a half-dozen English-language cybercrime forums since 2008, including Hackforums , Blackhatworld, and Ghostmarket.

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Beapy Cryptojacking campaign leverages EternalBlue exploit to spread

Security Affairs

exploit that could trigger an RCE in older versions of Windows (Windows XP to Server 2008 R2). ” Experts observed a spike in the activity of Beapy in March: Since Coinhive cryptocurrency mining service shut down in March, experts observed a drop in cryptojacking attacks.

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Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide

Security Affairs

In February 2018, researchers from Proofpoint discovered a huge botnet dubbed ‘Smominru’ that was using the EternalBlue exploit to infect Windows computers and recruit them in Monero cryptocurrency mining activities. Countries with several thousands of infected machines include China, Taiwan, Russia, Brazil and the US.”

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The Difference Between Data Architecture and Enterprise Architecture

erwin

Those that can mine it and extract value from it will be successful, from local organizations to international governments. Growth of non-relational models, 2008-present. Whereas a data architect’s scope, is mostly limited to the “What”(data), and from a system model/logical (level 3) perspective. The Value of Data Architecture.

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The World Is An Internet Startup Now

John Battelle's Searchblog

But as I scanned the room last night and watched those friends of mine, I realized that each of them was now involved in an Internet startup in some way or another. This is what we meant when we chose " Web Meets World " for the theme of the 2008 Web 2 Summit, but it's really happening now, at least in my world. And that was that.

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Mariposa Botnet Author, Darkcode Crime Forum Admin Arrested in Germany

Krebs on Security

Spanish for “Butterfly,” Mariposa was a potent crime machine first spotted in 2008. More recently, Škorjanc served as chief technology officer at NiceHash , a Slovenian company that lets users sell their computing power to help others mine virtual currencies like bitcoin. An advertisement for the ButterFly Bot.

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