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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

Krebs on Security

“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.” ” West said pig butchering victims are often quite sophisticated and educated people.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we’ve found 83,463,951 records known to be compromised, and 210 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 138 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated or exposed.

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A Record Center is Not an Archives: Some thoughts from an interview

The Schedule

It’s definitely an adjustment in terms of my job priorities, but I don’t think it’s a *bad* adjustment—I have to think on my feet a bit more with records coming in and out, and otherwise reshape the way I envision the flow of records into and out of our collections. Definitely. in terms of text mining, metadata harvesting, etc.),

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we found 38,846,799 records known to be compromised, and 140 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 123 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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How to prioritize data strategy investments as a CDO

IBM Big Data Hub

Our data insights sharpened our definition of what AI meant to an enterprise, which also fed directly back into our business strategy. Another part of our pivot was an education and mindset shift to design thinking. Thus IBM, itself, served as client zero and became a showcase of our solutions in the data and AI space.

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Vulnerability Recap 6/10/24 – RCE Attacks in Major Platforms

eSecurity Planet

The 8220 Gang, a China-based cryptojacking group, leveraged this vulnerability to take over unpatched servers for crypto-mining operations. Regularly update anti-malware software and educate your personnel about phishing dangers. With a CVSS score of 7.4, They used subtle approaches including hexadecimal encoding and HTTP via port 443.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Number 1 is "Mining, Resources & Energy" which had a local boom here but is now rapidly declining (down 14% on the previous year). Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. I regret that I had to learn French in high school. We lost money on shares.

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