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The City of Durham shut down its network after Ryuk Ransomware attack

Security Affairs

Once it’s inside, Ryuk can spread across network servers through file shares to individual computers,” reads a post published by SBI. “IT officials are working to get the communication systems back online.” 911 calls, though, are being answered.”

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Seven top central processing unit (CPU) use cases

IBM Big Data Hub

The central processing unit (CPU) is the computer’s brain, assigning and processing tasks and managing essential operational functions. Computers have been so seamlessly integrated with modern life that sometimes we’re not even aware of how many CPUs are in use around the world.

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Microcontrollers vs. microprocessors: What’s the difference?

IBM Big Data Hub

Replacing antiquated multi-component central processing units (CPUs) with separate logic units, these single-chip processors are both extremely valuable in the continued development of computing technology. The Harvard architecture excels at real-time and high-speed computing tasks.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. ” SEPTEMBER.

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else 11/25: The Collective Hallucination of Currency

John Battelle's Searchblog

Bitcoin mining operation. A new electronic payment platform that may have significant advantages over most of the existing ones.” How to handle critical response to the NSA is becoming messy, a challenge from the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed directly to the Supreme Court is turned away. And tweet us links!

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Sustes Malware: CPU for Monero

Security Affairs

Sustes (Mr.sh) is a nice example of Pirate-Mining and even if it’s hard to figure out its magnitude, since the attacker built-up private pool-proxies, I believe it’s interesting to fix wallet address in memories and to share IoC for future Protection. *//g”) taking decisions upon specific IP addresses. Country: USA).

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To get the most from blockchain in government, a sharing mindset is needed

CGI

When I was at university earning my Masters in Computer Science, I devoted a lot of my coursework to distributed computing. The doctor’s office owns the Electronic Health Record system, but that doesn’t give the office ownership of the patient’s medical information or control over the insurance company’s payment decision.