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FritzFrog P2P Botnet is back and targets Healthcare, Education and Government Sectors

Security Affairs

Experts discovered infected machines in a European television channel network, a Russian manufacturer of healthcare equipment, and multiple universities in East Asia. “The new implementation uses a public SCP library written in Golang in GitHub. It is, however, notable that the writers of the SCP library are located in China.”

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

IT Governance

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. Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) Manufacturing USA Yes 735 Osteopathic Healing Hands Source (New) Healthcare USA Yes 707 Marathon Coach, Inc.

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MY TAKE: How blockchain technology came to seed the next great techno-industrial revolution

The Last Watchdog

Bitcoin mining, for instance, is a contest to solve a difficult cryptographic puzzle in order to earn the right to add the next block of validated ledger entries to the historical chain of ledger blocks. Enterprises will remain at the table because improved productivity and greater profits are possible.

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South African print market growth lagging behind African recovery

Info Source

Other factors, like stock constraints due to parts being out of stock at a manufacturing level, logistics and shipping delays, and the economic slowdown due to the power crisis and political instability, are all hampering the consistent upswing we’re seeing in the rest of Africa. Power is not the only limiting factor in South Africa.

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A brief history of data and how it helped change the world

Collibra

Cloud storage, text mining and social network analytics are vital 21 st century tools. King Ptolemy I Soter set about creating the largest collection of data (then) known to man, an institution known as the Library of Alexandria. . It connects a vaccine manufacturer in India with researchers in the U.S. Around 300 B.C.E.,

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

and software libraries to attack the supply chain. > 54% of all data breaches come from ransomware attacks in manufacturing, healthcare, government, financial, retail, and technology industries. 27% of all attacks mine crypto currencies, usually on unmonitored cloud systems. 60% of all breaches come from the USA.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. The year started with the revelation of Spectre and Meltdown – major security flaws affecting processors manufactured by Intel, ARM and AMD.