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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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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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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.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

Yeah, me either, because most of mine are probably like yours: the simplest electrical devices in the house. There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates. Can you imagine your parents VLAN'ing their IoT things? It's painful enough for me!

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#ModernDataMasters: Mike Evans, Chief Technology Officer

Reltio

A passion of mine is imparting the knowledge and experience that the data leaders of today possess to the next generation of data professionals. The definition of success, from my perspective as a manager of a consulting organisation, is our clients achieving the business benefit they want and being delighted with our services.

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