A new survey of 150 cybersecurity professionals polled at the Cloud and Cybersecurity Expo 2019 in London shows that many businesses are not aware nor prepared for cybersecurity threats and challenges. Most notably, crypto mining activities such as shadow mining and cryptojacking strain network resources and opens it to new vulnerabilities.
On April 16, 1993, the White House announced the Clipper chip to secure communication devices like crypto phones, which protect calls from interception by using algorithms and cryptographic keys to encrypt and decrypt the signals. Here’s what happened next.
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Read about the first computer virus that preceded computer networks, called the Creeper. German mathematician John von Neumann (famous for major contributions to economics, such as game theory) first theorized the concept in the late 1940s. He envisioned a computer virus as an automatically self-replicating entity. But it was another 30 years before someone created one.
Read Exabeam’s latest research report about the hidden world of cryptocurrency mining, called “shadow mining” and how malicious insiders can abuse their IT rights to mine cryptocurrency within their own organization. Learn why it’s a security threat and what organizations can do to protect themselves.
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