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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.

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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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A brief history of data and how it helped change the world

Collibra

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. As a result, military medical care was reformed. . Data collection is what we do.

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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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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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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

Upon graduation everyone was assigned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and sent off to train for it. Mine was 0311 which was an infantry rifleman, and I was sent off for advanced infantry training. ” But of course I didn’t. DF: That is a story in itself but I’ll keep it short. Each roll of film held 36 exposures.