Free photocopier or confidential archived documents anyone?

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Just help yourself to the back of the van and it fell off the back of a truck right!/?

Photocopiers contain a hard drive thus if thrown away documents can still be extracted.

Parked in a very wealth West End street on Mon 29th June.

A very quick chat with John McAfee at Infosecurity Europe 2015 on malware

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At Infosecurity Europe 2015 today I grabbed John McAfee very quickly and got a photo (not a selfie).

My question: Symantec said antivirus (signatures) are dead, what is the solution?

Remember everyone was trying to talk to him and get a photo so the reply was short and interrupted. Reply below:

1. training of users because malware needs a click to activate
2. mobiles phone since they can get malware and even if screen is off it is still listening to you or working - referring to government monitoring schemes I assume
3. not a real answer. Anyone can now code, a guy in Thailand can release a app to 100s of millions of users - probably saying don't trust what you download or install

Supply chain security: this will make you think twice about shopping online, especially at adult stores

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Today I discovered something shocking, amusing, and embarrassing for the supplier & end customers. I was hunting using a search engine for a summary of a talk I did years back. Up came a result with my name, address and order details in a CSV online. It was within a CSV of an outsourced logistics firm which an online training provider used to post me two items this year.

The CSV contained thousands of order and dispatch records. I went back a step to the directory (clients.xxxxxx.com) and found twenty CSV’s along with three sub folders. On opening a random CSV, up came many fields including two fields with odd and rude words. Hmm. What have I just stumbled across?

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