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Mine, Mine, All Mine

John Battelle's Searchblog

Author’s musical preferences not included… No Longer Mine When I write, I like to listen to music. If they change course, or – perish the thought – if they fail, well, what then? In short, everything could be minedmined for insights, for value, for untold usefulness.

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Will cryptocurrency mining soon saturate AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud?

The Last Watchdog

On the face, the damage caused by cryptojacking may appear to be mostly limited to consumers and website publishers who are getting their computing resources diverted to mining fresh units of Monero, Ethereum and Bytecoin on behalf of leeching attackers. You can mine them, if you have a powerful CPU. Bilogorskiy.

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Ngrok Mining Botnet

Security Affairs

Additionally, the campaign is sophisticated in seeking to detect, analyse and neutralise other competing crypto-mining malware. I’ve been following the Monero mining pool address used in the Ngrok campaign and regularly checking for other research references on the internet. Introduction.

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Hack Yourself First Workshops in Australia, Denmark and Portugal (Virtually, of Course)

Troy Hunt

Of course it's virtual because let's face it, nobody is going anywhere at the moment. I'll leave you with an interview of NDC's General Manager where he was quizzed about a blog post of mine from a few years ago on 10 ways for a conference to upset their speakers. Watch him try to explain it to the crew ??

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New Pluralsight Course: Defending Against JavaScript Keylogger Attacks on Payment Card Information

Troy Hunt

Only a few weeks ago, I wrote about a new GDPR course with John Elliott. We've been getting fantastic feedback on that course and I love the way John has been able to explain GDPR in a way that's actually practical and makes sense! In my experience, that's a bit of a rare talent in GDPR land.

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Weekly Update 216

Troy Hunt

Alrighty, quickie intro before I rush off to hit the tennis court, catch up with old friends, onto the wake park before BBQ and, of course, ??.

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Cyber Security’s Impact on Climate Change: What Can Organisations Do?

IT Governance

Then there’s blockchain mining. In the early days of bitcoin mining, individuals could create new bitcoins using a standard computer set-up, but the process has grown so complex that it now requires a room full of specialised tools. It’s therefore no surprise that Cloud storage centres account for 1% of the world’s electricity use.