Krebs on Security

JULY 28, 2022

In a 2011 post on Hackforums, Acidut said they were building a botnet using an “exploit kit,” a set of browser exploits made to be stitched into hacked websites and foist malware on visitors. .” The same account continues to sell subscriptions to Shifter.io.

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Imperial Violet

JUNE 25, 2016

The C standard (ISO/IEC 9899:2011) has a sane-seeming definition of memcpy (section 7.24.2.1): The memcpy function copies n characters from the object pointed to by s2 into the object pointed to by s1. Emphasis is mine.). Apart from a prohibition on passing overlapping objects, I think every C programmer understands that.

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Libraries Mining IT Security 141

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cryptojacking , the practice of taking over a computer’s processes in order to mine cryptocurrency, is a popular method of blockchain-related fraud, often introduced via malicious links or by being directly installed on computers by someone with access.

Energy and Utilities 122

Energy and Utilities Phishing Blockchain Cybersecurity 122

Archive-It

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In line with our goal to make computational research (text and data mining, AI, machine learning, etc.) and education with digital collections more accessible we are introducing ARCHWay – a free to use ARCH service tier.

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Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

I know it it mine. The first we did in 2011 is what got me to start up jazz guitar lessons, and the posse noted my progress. In fact, all that participate would probably say this is their favorite week of the year. The weather and waves have never let us down. Music is one of the highlights of the trip.

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Mining IT Access 76

CGI

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Challenges include: Trawling, aggregating and mining of data, entity extraction to understand what the data actually is, Visualisation and Natural Language analytics, especially multi language. Challenges include: Tagging the information, its source and its provenance, Data mining and visualisation. Structured Databases and schemas.

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CGI

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Back in 2011 a colleague of mine won an "IT strategy" consulting engagement with a major UK company. Scope and Specification: An IT Strategy War Story. ravi.kumarv@cgi.com. Wed, 10/09/2013 - 07:20. He built a small, capable team, and hit the ground running.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 27, 2018

Sidenote: she's an avid 1Password user and has been since 2011, this password dated back a couple of decades when, like most people still do today, she had reused it extensively). She was pretty shocked when I showed her this as it was precisely the same verbal password as she used to authenticate to her bank.

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Security Passwords Authentication Mining 69

Hunton Privacy

APRIL 19, 2011

On April 18, 2011, the European Commission (the “Commission”) adopted an Evaluation Report on the EU Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC (the “Data Retention Directive”). Providing guidance on data usage to prevent data mining. Narrowing the categories of data to be retained. Providing consistent reimbursement for Operators.

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Data preservation Privacy Mining Access 40

eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Private social media information can be discoverable to the extent it ‘contradicts or conflicts with [a] plaintiff’s alleged restrictions, disabilities, and losses, and other claims’ ( Patterson v. Turner Const. 3d 617, 618, 931 N.Y.S.2d 2d 311 [1st Dept.

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Mining Education Access Privacy 44

Unwritten Record

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

1998 – 2011 , a collection of born-digital images and digital reproductions of analog photographs, brought to us by the U.S. There are thousands more photos just like these that highlight the beauty of nature, and will surely pique your curiosity like they did mine. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Conservation Training Center.

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Archiving Mining Libraries Access 34

Archives Blogs

JUNE 21, 2020

Plume (detail) (Coloured stainless steel, stainless steel tube, 2011). Wing (Steel, 2011) is based on the skeletal structure of a bird’s wing. The artist adds: ‘It was exhibited in my solo exhibition ‘Bird’ at the Lead Mining Museum in the Pennines in 2011.

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Robert's Db2

JANUARY 9, 2013

I wrote about this new DB2-related role in an article that appeared in 2011 in IBM Data Management Magazine , and I blogged about the value to an organization of SQL coding skills in an entry posted to this blog , also in 2011.

Access 48

Access Mining Communications IT 48

Unwritten Record

MAY 23, 2018

In 2011, the 150 th anniversary of Tagore’s birth was marked by the publication of The Essential Tagore , the largest anthology of his work available in English. Less than two years later, the U.S. entered World War II after Japan bombed the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941.

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Education Archiving Mining Military 35

Robert's Db2

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

In this sense, plan management functionality (along with REBIND PACKAGE options APREUSE and APCOMPARE) is intended to "take the fear out of rebinding" (in the words of a former colleague of mine). More information on this topic can be found in an entry I posted to this blog back in 2011 -- that information is still applicable today.

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Archiving Access Mining IT 48

eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 7, 2020

2011: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. Here they are: 2018: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2017: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2016: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2015: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2014: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2013: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. 2012: Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

In 2011, researcher Ang Cui showed how updates to common laser printers were not signed or otherwise authenticated, meaning that you might think you’re doing the right thing by applying an update when in reality you might be unintentionally installing malware. Vamosi: This is bad. Test your systems. Look for those bugs.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

In 2011, researcher Ang Cui showed how updates to common laser printers were not signed or otherwise authenticated, meaning that you might think you’re doing the right thing by applying an update when in reality you might be unintentionally installing malware. Vamosi: This is bad. Test your systems. Look for those bugs.

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IT Manufacturing Government Paper 52

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The ZeroAccess botnet, discovered in 2011, hit systems hard with fraudulent advertising clicks and Bitcoin mining malware, infecting at least 9 million computers worldwide. The bot was spread through the ZeroAccess rootkit, an aggressive and difficult-to-detect kernel-mode rootkit.

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Information Security Security Access Mining 119

John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Retailers have realized they’re sitting on a gold mine of purchase data, but buyers of that data don’t want to work with dozens of different vendors. Yes, Amazon and Walmart are dominant, but did you know that Wayfair, CostCo, Best Buy, Kroger, Chase, and CVS have them too? And those are just the larger ones.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Lots of great companies did great things – Salesforce, a leader in corporate responsibility, even hired a friend of mine to be Chief Ethics Officer. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. .” Well, I could list all the companies that pushed this movement forward. Imagine if every major company empowered such a position?

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Blockchain IT Marketing Mining 111