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2020 Census Outreach Runs Counter to Cybersecurity Best Practices

Adam Levin

The 2010 Census had an overall undercount of only 0.01 The problem in 2010 was not how many people were undercounted, but rather who wasn’t counted: 700,000 Latin Xers and almost five percent of the Native American and Alaska native population living on reservations; a million children under the age of four; 1.1 percent in 2010.

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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally. Early in his career, Severa worked very closely with two major purveyors of spam.

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

The massive shift to work from home in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant a rush to secure a wider range of home devices and networks, and an instant spike in demand for training and services that protect employees in identifying attempted cyberattacks and scams. Economic stimulus checks were targeted.

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