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New Pro-Ocean crypto-miner targets Apache ActiveMQ, Oracle WebLogic, and Redis installs

Security Affairs

The new malware implement new and improved rootkit and worm capabilities, it continues to target cloud applications by exploiting known vulnerabilities such as Oracle WebLogic ( CVE-2017-10271 ) and Apache ActiveMQ ( CVE-2016-3088 ) servers. One of the ways to use LD_PRELOAD is to add the crafted library to /etc/ld.so.preload.”

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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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Oracle critical patch advisory addresses 284 flaws, 33 critical

Security Affairs

The advisory fixed the CVE-2016-1000031 flaw, a remote code execution (RCE) bug in the Apache Commons FileUpload, disclosed in November last year. The Commons FileUpload library is the default file upload mechanism in Struts 2, the CVE-2016-1000031 was discovered two years ago by experts at Tenable.

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MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections

The Last Watchdog

During 2016, 39 states were hacked. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. If they can do that by stealing personally identifiable information or any of the other valuable things from a government institution, whether it’s a library or a court system, they’ll do just that.”.

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MY TAKE: How blockchain technology came to seed the next great techno-industrial revolution

The Last Watchdog

Bitcoin mining, for instance, is a contest to solve a difficult cryptographic puzzle in order to earn the right to add the next block of validated ledger entries to the historical chain of ledger blocks. But you’re able to work with something that’s very easy to maintain and deploy.”

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Technology sets the pace of change in content delivery and management

CILIP

ConTech MD Clive Snell says that is why library and information mangers should be looking at the possibilities now. For Library and Information Professionals in their early or mid-careers the ways in which content is delivered will change dramatically over the next decades. ?AI

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2017 Retrospective

Troy Hunt

" I've just re-read my 2016 retrospective and to the point about progress, I'm pretty stoked about what I've done since then ?? The focus on shorter local trips is more apparent when you see I went from 9 trips in 2016 to 17 trips in 2017. Here's how I feel about 2017: Blogging. Have I Been Pwned (HIBP).

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