Remote access — for a scammer
Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 10:42:15 +0000
Using persuasion instead of viruses: How scammers talk people into granting remote access to their computers.
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Month: July 2019
The top 8 problems with blockchain
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:00:00 -0700
While blockchain holds tremendous potential for creating new financial, supply chain and digital identity systems, it’s often erroneously seen as a panacea for business problems.
The myriad of pilots and proofs of concept by large corporations and government agencies are showing real promise, but those projects don’t always lead to obvious business cases that justify doing something differently. Sometimes a tried and true technology like a relational database can perform the task much more efficiently than a distributed ledger based on peer-to-peer technology that will require complex governance and rules.
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Read MoreRPA: focus on the tasks not the processes
Credit to Author: Hervé Coureil| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 05:47:32 +0000
There’s a current buzzword that has taken digital enterprises by storm: RPA (Robotic Process Automation), a term that relates to software rather than physical robots. And an approach that focuses… Read more »
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Read MoreHow to Protect Our Kids’ Data and Privacy
Credit to Author: Wired Opinion| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Opinion: Kids today have an online presence starting at birth, which raises a host of legal and ethical concerns. We desperately need a new data protection framework.
Read MoreWhat Is Credential Dumping?
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Modern network intrusions thrive on a counterintuitive trick: stealing passwords from computers that hackers have already compromised.
Read MoreChina Distributes Spyware at Its Border and Beyond
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Plus, Cyber Command warns about Outlook bugs, Virginia criminalizes deepfake porn, and more top security news from this week.
Read MoreHow 21st Century tools empower the water industry workforce
Credit to Author: John Boville| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 12:00:30 +0000
Other blogs in this series have talked about the potential of modern technologies to bring new levels of asset performance to the water industry. We’ve talked about how digitization gains… Read more »
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Read MoreThe Biggest Cybersecurity Crises of 2019 So Far
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Ransomware attacks, supply chain hacks, escalating tensions with Iran—the first six months of 2019 have been anything but boring.
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