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Canada Charges Its “Most Prolific Cybercriminal”

Krebs on Security

A 31-year-old Canadian man has been arrested and charged with fraud in connection with numerous ransomware attacks against businesses, government agencies and private citizens throughout Canada and the United States. Upon release from prison, Skorjanc became chief technology officer for NiceHash , a cryptocurrency mining service.

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Our Data Governance Is Broken. Let’s Reinvent It.

John Battelle's Searchblog

My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data. And second… Governance. But Governance? Data Governance. We’ll start with Governance.

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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

— Scott Hanselman (@shanselman) April 4, 2012 I was reminded of this only a few days ago when I came across yet another Windows virus scam, the kind that's been doing the rounds for a decade now but refuses to die. " It means "this is private." " You may be having a private conversation with Satan.

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

And there are the governments around the world using it to protect their departments , the law enforcement agencies leveraging it for their investigations and all sorts of other use cases I never, ever saw coming (my legitimisation of HIBP post from last year has a heap of other examples). I have work to do, thank you guys. 10 — ???

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

Krebs on Security

The government alleges the men used malware-laced phishing emails and “supply chain” attacks to steal data from companies and their customers. One of the alleged hackers was first profiled here in 2012 as the owner of a Chinese antivirus firm. Image: FBI.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. In 2012, I started creating what many people came to know me by: Pluralsight courses.

Education 111
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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

ZB in 2012, and the forecast is a mind-boggling 175 ZB by 2025! The result is improved enterprise content auto-classification, searchability, findability, knowledge sharing, security of sensitive data (for example, personal, health, financial, customer, IP), information governance, and compliance. IDC estimated the world created.16