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Acuity Who? Attempts and Failures to Attribute 437GB of Breached Data

Troy Hunt

Slightly different column count to mine (and similar but different to the hacker forum post), and slightly different email count, but the similarities remain striking. So how many "Acuity" companies are out there in total?! It's a legitimate , honest , legal business model. And the column names line up!

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

The Last Watchdog

As Ananth explained, the city did two things right: they had cyber insurance and they didn’t pay the ransom. This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. Election threat. Let’s look at what happened in Atlanta again. Attackers are profit minded,” says Ananth.

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8 schools with insurance analytics programs

Information Management Resources

Several top colleges and universities are offering courses and concentrations in applying data to the sector.

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Best Fraud Management Systems & Detection Tools in 2022

eSecurity Planet

Banks, financial services, and insurance companies are especially vulnerable to fraud due to their access to large amounts of money and sensitive information for customers and employees alike. They’re also useful for background checks, data analytics, and data mining. of attacks IBM handled, respectively.

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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 data is published after Medibank reportedly declines to pay a US$10 million ransom demand.

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Will Lawyers Ever Embrace Technology?: eDiscovery Best Practices, Part Four

eDiscovery Daily

Craig Ball once made a great point in responding to a post of mine about educating lawyers when he said “ We not only need to persuade lawyers to take the plunge, we need to insure there’s a pool for them to jump into. Do they go to a community night course on computers?

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With Google’s 2012 Zeitgeist, You Won’t Learn Much. Why?

John Battelle's Searchblog

Imagine if Google took its massive search query database and worked with some of the leaders in the open data movement to mine true insights? But Google knows so much more… and could really tease out some insights if it cared to. If that is the case, I urge the company to have more courage.