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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Emerging threats Cybercrime often exploits precisely the lack of regulation and centralized controls of cryptocurrencies to deceive investors and embezzle funds through various forms of phishing, investment scams, digital wallet theft, ransomware, and illegal mining. Education improves awareness” is his slogan.

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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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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

I'm a contributing editor at PC World Magazine. So in this episode, I'm going to share some of the conversations I've had with leaders of some of those more established villages over the last 50 episodes of the hacker mine. I'm also a blogger@forbes.com. I've also written the book which I'll get to in a moment.