Schneier on Security

JANUARY 4, 2023

The most blunt solution is to ban cryptocurrency mining altogether. China did this in 2018 , but it only made the problem worse; mining moved to other countries with even less efficient energy generation, and emissions went up. Of course, some people will try to evade the tax, just as people evade every other tax.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

“It’s run by a fraud ring of cryptocurrency scammers who mine dating apps and other social media for victims and the scam is becoming alarmingly popular.” It sort of feels like the federal government is ignoring this, so people are going to local agencies, which are sending these victims our way.”

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

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.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Through the course of this year, Gartner forecasts that the infosec market will climb 9 percent to $124 billion. Targeting one device.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

IoT device security has also attracted the attention of federal government officials (see The IoT Cybersecurity Act of 2020: Implications for Devices ). The delivery of malicious code through advertising supply chains is an insidious attack spanning over the course of 15 years. billion in 2018.

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Schneier on Security

MARCH 17, 2021

But none of this, so far, appears to seriously threaten those in power in governments and corporations. Imagine someone using this idea to evade government censorship. Most Bitcoin mining happens in China. Bitcoin and blockchains like it are on a collision course with these laws. But there is no such world.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

We now know, of course, they weren’t kidding. What if companies stopped treating consumers as wellsprings of behavioral data – data to be voraciously mined and then sold to the highest bidder? Related: Mark Zuckerberg’s intolerable business model.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

This week, we discuss the use of cryptocurrency mining software on numerous government websites, a phishing scam that robbed Bee Token investors of $1 million and cyber attacks on the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Of course, no evidence will be presented to the world.”. Here are this week’s stories. Some call it cryptojacking.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MARCH 7, 2016

See below… If your business focus is in technology or the Internet, as mine has been for nearly three decades, it’s quite possible you’ve never heard of the GLOBE Series , a global conference dedicated to sustainability in business. The post On Tech Leadership appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Malwarebytes reports that, once installed, DarkGate Loader can be used for many nefarious purposes, including “remote access, cryptocurrency mining, keylogging, clipboard stealing, and information stealing”. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 11, 2022

Of course, since most commercial data lakes build off of existing cloud infrastructure, this should be the case. A data governance manager will intensely focus on the access, transmission, and storage of data, but an IT security manager must have a broader perspective that encompasses the infrastructure and tools. Data Lake Controls.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 18, 2011

And this is not just because we might be worried about how the government or large platforms might use our data (though both issues certainly came up in talks with Chris Poole, Senator Ron Wyden, Genevieve Bell, and Sean Parker, among others). Shouldn’t that address be mine? Where is our data home? (a a phrase coined by @mdzimm).

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Finally, it also is useful for companies looking for a governance, risk, compliance ( GRC ) solution. Government organizations are arguably the most at risk of fraud attempts. According to FTC findings in 2019, government impostor fraud was the most-reported type of fraud. million in losses. Want to learn more?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Those images are, of course, digital. Of course it is. Mine is, but then again, that happens a bit more frequently than your average bear, I'll admit. Far and away, he said, the company's largest customer is the US Government. This reality is objective, factual, and indifferent to politics. Is it possible?

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

Of course, I'd considered all that before making the decision to go down this path, but nothing could prepare me for the actual emotions felt once I was eyeball-deep in the M&A process. We whittled the original 141 companies down to the 43 that were best aligned to the goals I outlined in the original blog post.

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Reltio

MARCH 19, 2019

Of course, our initial MDM project proposal was rejected outright! It will be possible to put more emphasis on the people, process and data governance which really make MDM live and breathe.”. A passion of mine is imparting the knowledge and experience that the data leaders of today possess to the next generation of data professionals.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect.

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CILIP

JUNE 29, 2021

It took action when the Dutch government drafted a law for the creation of a digital library lending platform ? The point now is not just that this happened, but that although Pearson did the right thing, the UK Government couldn?t At that time EU law prevented the UK government from intervening. t have enforced it.

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Preservica

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The member libraries needed a way to preserve, store, and provide access to important digital objects such as archival materials, special collections, theses and dissertations, institutional materials (such as course catalogs, images, records), and more.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

The Measures also cover “important data,” defined as “the data that might directly affect national security, economic security, social stability and public health and security in case of disclosure, such as non-public government information, population data covering a large area, gene health data, geographic data and mining data.”

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

It solves the interception problem but of course the query still needs to be sent to a DNS server somewhere and at that point, the name being queried and the origin of the query (your IP address) is still visible. Because it's a plain text query, the site your client it querying is immediately observable by anyone sitting on the connection.

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CILIP

APRIL 5, 2023

Similarly, the European Commission’s assessment of the evidence around its future text and data mining rules noted rightholders’ claim that an exception would “facilitate the misuse and piracy of their content and make them lose business opportunities in future”.

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The Falcon's View

MAY 16, 2018

In the first case you quickly go down the data governance path (inclusive of data security), which must factor in requirements for control, retention, protection (including encryption), and masking/redaction, to name a few things. Consider, if you will, a cloud resource being compromised in order to run cryptocurrency mining.

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Unwritten Record

MARCH 16, 2022

Before the National Archives held more than half a million reels of film, nearly 200,000 videos, and over 300,000 sound recordings originating from dozens of government agencies (and decades before the existence of the National Archives) Carl Louis Gregory was a motion picture cameraman dedicated to the evolution of the field.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Of course, success at that level is exceptionally rare, but my point is that in this industry more than any other I can think of, we can create amazing things from very humble beginnings. Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year).

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 27, 2018

United States, holding that the federal government needs a warrant to access cellphone location records. At issue in Carpenter was the government’s warrantless collection of historical cellphone location records. The Court disagreed with the government and sided with Carpenter.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It involved thousands of workers, each of whom required a daily ration of food, which of course had to be grown, harvested and delivered on schedule. . Cloud storage, text mining and social network analytics are vital 21 st century tools. All of this had to be synchronized, otherwise the project would stall.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 15, 2022 I've had various public users of HIBP, commercial users and even governments reach out to ask what's going on because they were concerned about their data. I think he’s actually serious!  number of ppl living at the house has changed.

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eDiscovery Daily

MARCH 29, 2018

Jason is a member of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP ’s Information Governance and eDiscovery practice and co-chair of the Information Governance Initiative. The practice that I joined a few years ago at Drinker Biddle is an Information Governance and eDiscovery group. Today’s thought leader is Jason R.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

> 54% of all data breaches come from ransomware attacks in manufacturing, healthcare, government, financial, retail, and technology industries. 27% of all attacks mine crypto currencies, usually on unmonitored cloud systems. . +30% data breaches and +23% ransomware for the first two months of 2024.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

Source (New) Software Luxembourg Yes 3,600,000 National Automobile Dealers Association Source (New) Retail USA Yes 1,065,000 Consórcio Canopus Source (New) Professional services Brazil Yes 1,400,000 The Teaching Company (Wondrium by The Great Courses) Source (New) Education USA Yes 1.3 TB Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co.

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Troy Hunt

JUNE 10, 2019

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). That's number 1 on the list here for a reason.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

This provided a means of implementing guidance from government and industry bodies alike , but it also provided individuals with a repository they could check their own passwords against. If you're inclined to lose your mind over that last statement, read about the k-anonymity implementation then continue below. Oh wow - look at this!

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Cryptocurrency is a digital currency designed to work as a medium of monetary exchange through transactions on a computer network and is not reliant on any central authority, such as a government or bank, to uphold or maintain it. Nor am I going to wade into the debate about the ecological consequences of mining cryptocurrencies.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

For example, organizations can re-package video libraries, songs, research, and course material for different audiences – customers, researchers, academics, students, and so on; and they can monetize the content via CaaS. Of course, analyzing vast repositories of data is now possible by using AI. Content Marketing Platforms (CMP).

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Brandeis Records Manager

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

The components, processes, and details of records management are, of course, the focus of exam prep. Mine has been a positive one, and I thank the ICRM for supporting the opportunity for measurable, professional validation. Throughout parts I-VI, the candidate is immersed in the “what” and “how” of the discipline. They were for me.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 15, 2021

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government.

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