Wednesday, March 31, 2021

5 Commons Cybercrime Attack Vectors and How to Avoid Them

 

A New Portal for the Decentralized Web and its Guiding Principles

Internet Archives Blog – “For a long time, we’ve felt that the growing, diverse, global community interested in building the decentralized Web needed an entry point. A portal into the events, concepts, voices, and resources critical to moving the Decentralized Web forward. This is why we created, getdweb.net, to serve as a portal, a welcoming entry point for people to learn and share strategies, analysis, and tools around how to build a decentralized Web…”




What you can do is do what David Ogilvy did: acquire the habit of hiring “different:- i.e. mavericks and non-conformists- and let them go wild (within reason). It’s what powered the tech industry these last 60 years, and judging by the stock prices of some of them, it worked.

How To Be Different


5 Commons  Cybercrime Attack Vectors and How to Avoid Them

MakeUseOf – “The threat landscape has significantly expanded with the proliferation of the internet and digital connectivity. As of March 2020, there were more than 677 million new malware detections. This figure by Statista indicates a growing threat of cyberattacks against individuals and businesses. Cybercriminals take advantage of cyberattack vectors to bypass your basic security defenses. These vectors fall into several categories, each of which uses a different approach to compromise your system’s security. In this post, we’ll take you through some of the most common vectors of attacks and the countermeasures you can take to effectively combat these threats…”


HMRC plans to provide a personalised service to offshore tax cheats to avoid having to name them as the criminals that they are


The FT has an article today in which they note that: Tax advisers said HM Revenue & Customs had made a “refreshing shift” away from
Read the full article…


A Dog Who Kept Sneaking into a Dollar General for a Unicorn Toy Gets His Plush and a New Start People


Credit Suisse and Nomura warn of losses after Archegos-linked sell-off FT


Tiger Cub Hwang’s Family Office Behind Friday Trade Frenzy Bloomberg


The Gray Market: How Deep-Pocketed Crypto-Collectors Are Rushing Into an Old Art-Market Trap (and Other Insights) Artnet


Football Index: how ‘stock market’ ended up costing customers millions Guardian