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Norton 360 Now Comes With a Cryptominer

Krebs on Security

Norton 360 , one of the most popular antivirus products on the market today, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers. In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. However, many users have reported difficulty removing the mining program.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. io emerged as subsidiaries of Microleaves between 2017 and 2018. pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites.

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Implied herein is a cloud computing model that ARMA (2016) defines as “A model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g.,