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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect.

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Web 2 Preview: DigitalGlobe: The World Is The Index

John Battelle's Searchblog

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. In essence, the US Government uses DigitalGlobe for the same reason it uses FedEx to move military supplies around the world: it's just faster, better, cheaper, and easier.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Communities

ForAllSecure

We're happy at the keyboard, but when it comes to real human interactions, it's sometimes hard, not for everyone, of course, some of us are really good at the human side of things. It was also designed under President Eisenhower to move military troops and vehicles from point A to point B, but that's another story.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: A Hacker From Hollywood

ForAllSecure

He told her he really wanted to create faster planes so that he could sell them to the US military. This was written for 16 synchronized player pianos, accompanied by two grand pianos, as well as three xylophones, four brass drums, a gong, three airplane propellers, seven electric bells, and of course a siren.

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The Hacker Mind: Hackers Wanted: Filling the Cybersecurity Skills Gap

ForAllSecure

As a journalist, I, of course, had experienced all of the relevant domains, but my knowledge in each was only so deep. Vamosi: Since 1989, the SANS Institute has attracted some of the best infosec talent in the world to teach their courses. We recruit military veterans, women, and minorities. It could be difficult, but it's not.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

And, of course the military in particular is always concerned with that and, you know, good friends of mine like Billy rails for example who most people you're probably have heard of, spend a lot of their time in classified environments, trying to figure out how to fix those issues for the government. He said yeah.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

And, of course the military in particular is always concerned with that and, you know, good friends of mine like Billy rails for example who most people you're probably have heard of, spend a lot of their time in classified environments, trying to figure out how to fix those issues for the government. He said yeah.

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