Troy Hunt

MARCH 15, 2020

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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

. “Unlike the aforementioned IoT botnets, this one tries to be more stealthy and persistent once the device is compromised, and it does not (yet) do the usual stuff a botnet does like DDOS , attacking all the devices connected to the internet, or, of course, mining cryptocurrencies.”

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

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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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Most of the unstructured data generated in the course of conducting digital commerce doesn’t get stored in a database or any other formal management system. But with no orderly internal framework, unstructured data defies data mining tools. With unstructured data, out of sight is out of mind, leaving it ill protected.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The adversary could apply data mining and extraction techniques to acquire records of interest and use them in advanced phishing scenarios and other cyber offensive purposes. The adversary may exploit the trust the victim has in the AI platform to obtain sensitive information, which could later be used for payment fraud and identity theft.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In due course, the malicious actor was able to partially compromise our infrastructure, and gain access to document storage.” . “This gave the actor the ability to change DNS records and in turn, take control of a number of internal email accounts. ” In the early morning hours of Nov.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 8, 2021

“During the course of this investigation, OPP investigators determined an individual was responsible for numerous ransomware attacks affecting businesses, government agencies and private individuals throughout Canada as well as cyber-related offenses in the United States,” reads an OPP statement.

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Troy Hunt

AUGUST 7, 2018

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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IT Governance

MARCH 29, 2022

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.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 18, 2018

This, of course, is a tall task. What we’re seeing is they’re going in and taking a bank’s good application and wrapping a crypto currency mining app around it. LW: It’s the actual banking app, wrapped up with a crypto mining functionality on it? But right now, crypto mining is where the money is.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In that context, it might even make sense to do further Facebook integration in the near term, as one of many signals, of course. Because I view my Facebook data as, well, mine. Now, that may not really be the case, but if it's mine, I should be able to tell Google to use it in search, or not.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 1, 2011

I considered myself one of them, of course, but I also kept a bit apart - it's one reason I live up in Marin, and not down in the Silicon Valley. But as I scanned the room last night and watched those friends of mine, I realized that each of them was now involved in an Internet startup in some way or another. Why did I do that?

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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.” Nolan’s mentor had her create an account website xtb-market[.]com com , which was made to be confusingly similar to XTB’s official platform.

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AIIM

JUNE 16, 2020

Of course, it’s not just your membership dues – it’s also your time, your energy, your feedback, and even how you respond to AIIM product and service offerings. Professional members save 10% vs. non-membership, and if all you do is buy a training course and a conference registration, you’ve saved the cost of your membership for that year.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2019

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. percent, according to tech consultancy Gartner.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

This makes government networks even more vulnerable and hackers see them as a gold mine. Every type of attack on a government entity will have an impact, of course, but with the midterm election looming, there is a lot of concern about whether or not local and state governments will be able to prevent election tampering.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 31, 2021

Every site that had Coinhive running on it, either by the design of the site owner or at the whim of a cryptojacker, stopped mining Monero. which was used for their link shortener (which also caused browsers to mine Monero). The site disappeared and the domain stopped resolving. wasm) in their paper. Windows+NT+10.0;+Win64;+x64)+AppleWebKit/537.36+(KHTML,+like+Gecko)+apollohobo/1.0.0+Chrome/58.0.3029.110+Electron/1.7.9+Safari/537.36

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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

MARCH 5, 2018

Note: throughout this blog, when I use the term “artificial intelligence,” I mean that to include other advanced analytics such as deep learning, machine learning (supervised, unsupervised, reinforcement), data mining, predictive analytics, and statistics (see Figure 1). Figure 1: The Evolution of AI, ML and DL (Source: Nvidia ).

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 13, 2011

Mine looks like this: As you can see, this is a flow of posts from folks that I follow, with added features and information on the right rail. However, there are important differences, and of course, Google has a massive advantage: Google+ is integrated into everything the company owns and operates.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The infamous XMRig mines Monero cryptocurrency that is known to be anonymity-focused, as it’s particularly hard to trace back. Of course, it can be hard to keep pace with the release cycles, and updates can introduce nasty regressions and bugs. Cybercriminals Use C2 Servers to Deploy Cryptominer. Shikitega installs XMRig version 6.17.0

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The attackers hijack the idle processing power of the targeted machines to mine cryptocurrency. Of course, it depends on the usage, but it’s unlikely you need more than one fourth or one third of the total CPU in most cases. Such an approach is quite popular in the malware landscape, for example, with cryptominers.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 24, 2022

Most people say “what if the password manager gets hacked” while this might be a valid concern, it’s not a concern of mine. You can use the same method, of course, for the smaller parts of the password. The rest, only my password manager knows the password which I can easily look up. But I’ve never committed them to memory.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 13, 2012

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. Instead, we find out that Gangnam Style was a big deal this year.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 23, 2012

Of course, our cels don’t work very well in the hills of Marin County, California, which creates a rather asynchronous sense of community, but more on that in a bit. That one phone number – I can still remember mine from my earliest days growing up – was a shared identity for our family.

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Troy Hunt

MAY 21, 2019

Of course they are! In fact, it was only September that I proposed EV certificates are already dead for all sorts of good reasons that have only been reinforced since that time. No, because it would be pointless anyway because nobody actually changes their behaviour in its absence! It's a dead duck, let's move on.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 10, 2023

Grasping these opportunities at IBM, we’re increasingly building our specialism in process mining and data analysis tools and techniques we believe to be true ‘game changers’ when it comes to building cultures of continuous change and innovation. This means you can intervene with targeted change interventions to course correct more quickly.

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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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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

The delivery of malicious code through advertising supply chains is an insidious attack spanning over the course of 15 years. Spending on Digital Display Ads Increasing.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 18, 2025

2019) (Using social media is not cost-free, because [t]he user incurs the cost of having his information mined and shared.) This is simply not the same, as disclosure is tantamount to selling user information. See Bass v. Facebook, Inc., 3d 1024, 1038 (N.D. Slip op at *9.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Image: palant.info However, these numbers radically come down when a determined adversary also has other large-scale computational assets at their disposal, such as a bitcoin mining operation that can coordinate the password-cracking activity across multiple powerful systems simultaneously. million worth of different cryptocurrencies.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2012

Is it normal for sites like mine to have.0017 If I get more comments and tweets on this post than I have “reach” by Google Feedburner status, well, that’s enough for me to pronounce RSS Alive and Well (by my own metric of nodding along , of course). Either RSS is pretty moribund, or, I must say, I am deeply offended.

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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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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 27, 2014

And this, of course, has always been both its declared strength and its obvious Achilles heel. We just want media products on top of those feeds that mine the best stuff and present it to us in a way that keeps us engaged, provides us significant value, and thereby keeps us coming back. Twitter makes no such distinction.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 19, 2012

But at “hubadverts.com/on-data/” for example, you will see a recent post of mine, scraped in its entirety. Of course, the last thing I am going to do is try to log into the back end of the site, because that would give the spammers access to the backend login information of my own site.

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Imperial Violet

JUNE 25, 2016

Emphasis is mine.). Nobody would actually write memcpy(NULL, NULL, 0) , of course, because it (at best) does nothing. I'm sure that 7.1.4 seemed quite reasonable in isolation, but how does it interact with the case where memcpy is called with a zero length? If you read 7.24.2.1 2) clarifies that 7.1.4

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ChiefTech

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

While the results of an SNA project are focused on the intangible connections between people (and there is a lot of focus on this fun part), the process of collecting data for SNA is actually similar in fashion to data mining and it requires a bit of planning to do it effectively. Data Mining. Pre-processing. Transformation.

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