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5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019

Security Affairs

Yet, the major attack of 2018 was definitely VPNFilter, hitting over half a million devices, mostly routers, from a wide range of known vendors. not located behind routers or firewalls) to conduct future DDoS attacks on data centers and cloud services or for crypto currency mining purposes. Three IoT Attack Avenues for 2019.

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Outlaw is Back, a New Crypto-Botnet Targets European Organizations

Security Affairs

This directory contains the crypto mining module named kswapd0. This component has two main functions: Install a cryptoMiner worker: The main purpose of this elf file is the instantiation of a crypto-mining worker. It is a fork of XMRIG project, one of the most popular software to mine monero crypto values.

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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. million LivaNova Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing UK Yes 2.2 million LivaNova Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing UK Yes 2.2 Source (New) Manufacturing Canada Yes 1.2 Source (New) Manufacturing Canada Yes 1.2 Organisation name Sector Location Data exfiltrated?

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FPGA vs. GPU: Which is better for deep learning?

IBM Big Data Hub

Considering circuitry, both GPUs and FPGAs make effective central processing units (CPUs) , with many available options from manufacturers like NVIDIA or Xilinx designed for compatibility with modern Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) standards. FPGA programming and reprogramming can potentially delay deployments.

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Understanding Have I Been Pwned's Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity

Troy Hunt

However, what if you could manufacture a hash collision? By any definition of the term, those first 6 bytes tell you absolutely nothing useful about what email address is being searched for. My own email address begins with a "t", so it must be mine! It's a nonsense argument.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. KG Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing Germany Yes 1.1 TB Halara Cannabis Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes >1,000,000 Proax Technologies Ltd. 79 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. Organisation Sector Location Data breached?

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Digital sobriety

Everteam

And some were omitted from previous calculations: The cost of water : between water cooling, the manufacture of coolants, the use of water in the manufacture of computer equipment, the cost and pollution of water are not insignificant and often absent from the equation. Well, not really. Collective awareness is therefore necessary.