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Zdnet | June 20, 2020

Bitcoin giveaway scams have been around for more than two years, but a new twist in tactics has helped scammers make more than $2 million over the past two months from Elon Musk's name. The new trick involves the use of Bitcoin vanity addresses in order to give the scam more credibility in the eyes of a suspicious user. Over the past month, Justin Lister, CEO of cyber-security firm Adaptiv, has been tracking the use of Bitcoin vanity addresses abusing Elon Musk's name in giveaway scams. ...

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SkyHive | August 30, 2022

SkyHive®, the first company to map and sequence the global labor market in real-time for workforce intelligence, strategy, and architecture, as well as the rapid reskilling of workers and communities around the world, today announced the launch of SkyHive Platform, a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) skills-first solution for private and public sector organizations. Using SkyHive’s real-time Labor Market Intelligence and artificial intelligence to analyze global labor markets...

VentureBeat | March 12, 2020

For the second year running, lawmakers in the state of Washington again failed to pass sweeping data privacy legislation. The Washington Privacy Act or SB 6281 akin to GPDR in the European Union or CCPA in California would have allowed individuals to request companies delete their data. Washington state House and Senate lawmakers did succeed in passing SB 6280 today for public and private facial recognition use. The bill requires testing facial recognition for bias, training, mandates local and ...

OODA Loop | January 25, 2020

The Google security team has indefinitely blocked the publishing of any commercial Chrome extensions due to a recent surge in the number of paid extensions engaging in fraudulent transactions through the Chrome Web Store. The transactions began to spike earlier this month, and Google engineers described the influx as happening “at scale.” The publishing and updating ban impacts all paid extensions, including extensions that require a fee before installing, ones that work on monthly s...