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2017-07-11 10:54:40 | Analysis: How data breaches affect stock market share prices (lien direct) | Data breaches stain the reputations of modern-day companies both big and small. They instill doubt and reduce trust in consumers, and sometimes the consequences can affect customers for years to come. A data breach can harm both public sentiment and a company's competitive edge in the market. Staff get fired, executives are replaced, and entire ... | |||
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2017-07-11 10:50:19 | Darknet Hoster Pwned in Cyber Attack (lien direct) | Darknet hoster Deep Hosting has claimed to have suffered a major security breach over the weekend which led to some of its customers' data being compromised. The hacker registered a shared account with the platform then used it to upload two shells to its servers, one in PHP and one written in Perl. The former ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-11 10:48:35 | Swiss users targeted with Windows, macOS banking Trojan (lien direct) | Swiss users are once again hit with emails delivering banking malware, for both Windows and macOS systems. Trend Micro researchers believe the campaign to have been mounted by the threat actors behind Operation Emmental, who have been targeting users based in Switzerland for at least four years, as well as occasionally users based in several ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-11 10:46:10 | \'Excellent Job, Thanks\': You May Never Know about the Cybersecurity Incidents Caused by Your Employees (lien direct) | Employees hide IT security incidents in 40 per cent of businesses around the world – that's according to a new report from Kaspersky Lab and B2B International, “Human Factor in IT Security: How Employees are Making Businesses Vulnerable from Withinâ€. With 46 per cent of IT security incidents caused by employees each year, this business ... | |||
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2017-07-11 10:41:23 | Cyber amateurs prevent connected house from real-time home invasion (lien direct) | Last week, 42 cyber security amateurs prevented a cyber-savvy burglar from breaking into an Internet of Things (IoT)-connected home, in an ultra-realistic simulated competition run by security consultancy Roke and Cabinet Office-backed Cyber Security Challenge UK. The competition sought to find the UK's best, hidden cyber talent and encourage them into jobs on the frontline ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-07-11 10:35:26 | “Mind the (breach) gapâ€: Gemalto research reveals businesses overly confident about keeping hackers at bay, but less so about keeping data safe (lien direct) | Despite the increasing number of data breaches and nearly 1.4 billion data records being lost or stolen in 2016 (source: Breach Level Index), the vast majority of IT professionals still believe perimeter security is effective at keeping unauthorised users out of their networks. However, companies are under investing in technology that adequately protects their business, ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-07-10 11:24:59 | One in Twelve UK Consumers Admit to Watching Adult Content on Public Wi-Fi (lien direct) | Consumers are unable to resist a strong, free Wi-Fi network, but their online behaviours may be placing their personal information and privacy at risk, according to Norton by Symantec's (NASDAQ: SYMC) 2017 Norton Wi-Fi Risk Report, released today. But the siren song of free data means many throw caution to the wind when it comes ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-07-10 11:21:47 | New Report Reveals Consumers Want Transaction Security Over Speed (lien direct) | MYPINPAD, an enabler of multi-factor authentication for touchscreen devices, such as smartphones and tablets, has launched the initial findings from its exclusive survey: Consumer Trust and Mobile Payments Growth. The unique research explores how and why online commerce has been damaged by fraud, the effects this has had on consumer's subsequent decisions about transacting online, ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-07-10 11:18:55 | GDPR compliance not relevant to us say UK decision makers, while one in five admit they don\'t know (lien direct) | According to new research, when it comes to data compliance matters, one in five business decision makers within the UK admit they do not know which compliance regulations their company is subject to, while a worrying number do not believe the forthcoming General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to them. The findings are part of ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-10 11:17:02 | Windows 10 Finally Getting a Feature to Reset Passwords from the Lock Screen (lien direct) | Windows 10 users will finally be allowed to reset their account passwords from the lock screen, with Microsoft currently testing a feature that would enable password recovery with help from digital assistant Cortana. Available in the latest preview build of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, the new password recovery option is displayed alongside the sign-in ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-10 11:14:27 | (Déjà vu) Reliance Jio Customers\' Data Allegedly Hacked – Company Denies Data Breach (lien direct) | Personal details of some 120 Million customers have been allegedly exposed on the Internet in probably the biggest breach of personal data ever in India. Last night, an independent website named Magicapk.com went online, offering Reliance Jio customers to search for their identification data (Know Your Customer or KYC) just by typing in their Jio ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-10 11:07:45 | Biometric data stolen from corporate lunch rooms system (lien direct) | A US payment kiosk vendor has been stung by malware scum. Avanti Markets helps employers monetise the lunch-room and get rid of counter-service, going beyond a simple vending machine to cover the whole sandwiches-fruit-drinks-junk-food with one payment system. Last week, as first spotted by Brian Krebs, the company posted this breach notice. The outfit explains it’s ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-10 11:01:16 | Facebook and WhatsApp HACK risk – Malware steals sensitive info from YOUR favourite apps (lien direct) | FACEBOOK and WhatsApp users have been warned about a dangerous piece of malware that can steal sensitive information from your favourite apps. The SpyDealer malware has existed for almost TWO years and is capable of stealing information from 40 apps including Facebook, WhatsApp and Skype. The trojan is capable of grabbing vast amounts of sensitive information ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-07 15:46:08 | (Déjà vu) How will the upcoming EU GDPR impact the valuation of start-ups? (lien direct) | The upcoming EU GDPR is not only relevant to CISOs and DPOs (Data Protection Officers), but has a massive impact on businesses, particularly due to the new consent rules. Instead of a fuzzy consent, given once, in the form of “This site uses cookies. If you continue using the site, you accept that we collect ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-07 10:53:03 | Massive cyber-attack could cost Nurofen and Durex maker £100m (lien direct) | Some of the world's biggest companies are counting the cost of lost business following last week's “NotPetya†ransomware cyber-attack, with Nurofen maker Reckitt Benckiser taking an estimated £100m hit in revenue. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian | NotPetya | ★★★★★ | |
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2017-07-07 10:46:05 | Hackers Are Targeting Nuclear Facilities, Homeland Security Dept. and F.B.I. Say (lien direct) | Since May, hackers have been penetrating the computer networks of companies that operate nuclear power stations and other energy facilities, as well as manufacturing plants in the United States and other countries. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: NY Times | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-07 10:44:59 | Water Utility Hacker Disrupts East Coast\'s Remote Metering (lien direct) | A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to one year and a day in federal prison for hacking computers that disrupted operations at municipal water utilities. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Water Online | |||
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2017-07-07 10:41:10 | Cyber-Attacks on UK Firms Jump 52% in Q2 (lien direct) | UK firms were hit by a 52% increase in cyber-attacks in Q2 compared to the first three months of the year, with corporate databases increasingly targeted, according to the latest stats from Beaming. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Infosecurity Magazine | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-07 10:31:32 | THE MOBILE AND IOT TIDAL WAVE IS UPON US: ARE YOU READY? (lien direct) | Currently, around 23 billion 'things' are connected to the world's numerous communication networks and more are joining at a rapid speed. For consumers, these include everything from connected fridges to watches. The general hunger for both novelty and innovation is swiftly increasing as industry goliaths continue to release new products into the market. Though ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-07 10:27:05 | New research reveals businesses under threat from employees\' poor cyber security at home, opening the back-door for cyber criminals (lien direct) | Following new research by T-Systems (www.t-systems.co.uk), the corporate IT and cyber security arm of Deutsche Telekom, (one of the world's largest telecoms companies), is warning businesses and other organisations that when employees work from home, poor domestic cyber security is creating an open back door into their networks for hackers. T-Systems is encouraging businesses ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-06 10:08:51 | Largest cryptocurrency exchange hacked. Over $1 million worth of Bitcoin stolen (lien direct) | Bithumb, one of the world’s largest Bitcoin and Ether cryptocurrency exchanges, has been breached resulting in the loss of more than $1 Million in cryptocurrencies after a number of its user accounts were compromised. We reached out to some of the world’s leading cybersecurity experts for their thoughts on this latest hack. Ben Hertzberg, research ... | Guideline | Bithumb | ★★★★★ |
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2017-07-06 09:47:02 | Two thirds of students fear the robot revolution (lien direct) | Two thirds of Young entrepreneurs are concerned that the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace could impact job prospects, according to a new report from Young Enterprise. The report, entitled Robot Revolution: The impact of artificial intelligence on entrepreneurs and job prospects, includes detailed polling of 200 finalists from the Young Enterprise ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-06 09:44:55 | Frost & Sullivan Recognises Gemalto for Leadership in Encryption and Data Protection (lien direct) | Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, announced today it has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2017 Encryption and Data Protection Technology Leadership Award. Frost & Sullivan analysts independently evaluated Gemalto's SafeNet data protection and encryption solutions, in particular, the commercial success, growth potential, operational efficiency, and benefits provided to customers. Each year, ... | Guideline | ★★ | |
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2017-07-06 09:29:14 | Ukraine says it foiled 2nd cyberattack after police raid (lien direct) | Ukraine is still trying to find its feet after scores or even hundreds of businesses and government agencies were hit by an explosion of data-scrambling software on June 27. In a Facebook post , Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said there was a second stage to that attack, timed to hit its peak at 4 p.m. in Ukraine ... | |||
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2017-07-06 09:27:52 | Petya hackers issue fresh ransom demand (lien direct) | The perpetrators of a recent cyber-attack that disrupted businesses across the world appear to have accessed the ransom payments they raised. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC Tech | |||
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2017-07-05 09:34:21 | Three ways to prepare your business for GDPR (lien direct) | Next May, the UK will apply the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Dubbed as the most important change in data protection of the past two decades, this ruling is set to protect all EU citizens' data privacy, and enforce changes needed in the business sector which ensure that organisations protect people's data. Despite Article 50 ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-05 09:17:48 | Hackers Connected to NotPetya Ransomware Surface Online, Empty Bitcoin Wallet (lien direct) | Whoever is in control of the NotPetya bitcoin wallet has moved around $10,000 of funds, and a mysterious group has offered to unlock all of the ransomed files. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Motherboard | NotPetya | ★★★ | |
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2017-07-05 09:11:54 | Cyber crime now accounts for half of UK crimes, says research (lien direct) | Research by investment and tax group Smith and Williamson and the British Chambers of Commerce has found that cyber attacks now account for half of all UK crime. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: East Midlands Business Link | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-05 09:10:16 | Hackers Steal Billions in S.Korean Won by Hacking 4th Largest Bitcoin Exchange (lien direct) | Bithumb, one of the largest Bitcoin and Ether exchange platforms, has been hacked resulting in a loss of billions of South Korean Won with a number of user accounts compromised. Information such as users' phone numbers, email addresses, etc. have been leaked as such, reports Bravenewcoin. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: HackRead | Bithumb | ★★★ | |
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2017-07-05 08:58:39 | Ready for GDPR? DQM GRC\'s online tool will assess your organisation\'s compliance for free (lien direct) | Compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is not optional, and with less than a year to go before the law is enforced, the time for action is now. To help organisations kickstart their journeys towards GDPR compliance DQM GRC, experts in data governance, has launched its GDPR Self-Assessment Tool. The personalised analysis gives ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-07-04 11:21:47 | Security Serious Week in Search of the UK\'s Unsung Heroes (lien direct) | Second Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards open for nominations as search gets underway to unearth those at the coalface of cyber security Eskenzi PR, the driving force behind Security Serious , has today announced the second annual Security Serious Unsung Heroes Awards are now open for nominations. The awards recognise the people, not products, on ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-04 09:34:40 | SMEs more afraid of cybercrime than Brexit (lien direct) | Small businesses shift from hiring experts in 'traditional' fields to taking on specialists for the digital world Investment in cybersecurity expertise set to increase by a third next year as 44 per cent of businesses cite this as a major concern, compared to 34 per cent who worry about the consequences of Brexit Juggling a ... | |||
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2017-07-04 09:22:40 | Android \'forensic\' app pulled from Google Play after vulnerability report (lien direct) | If you use an app called eVestigator, billed as checking Android phones for compromise, delete it. That’s the word from someone signing their name as MaXe from InterN0T, who looked at what the Android app does. The app claimed to test Android phones to see if they’ve been compromised, but MaXe found it ran a ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-07-04 09:20:35 | Massive AdGholas Malvertising Campaign Infects Millions (lien direct) | A massive malvertising network has been infecting as many as one million computers per day with a variety of geo-focused banking trojans. Named AdGholas, researchers say that it has been operating since 2015, infecting thousands of victims every day using a sophisticated combination of techniques that include filtering and steganography. It was receiving high-quality traffic from ... | |||
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2017-07-04 09:11:59 | Hackers are offering to sell the Medicare details of Australians on the dark web, government confirms (lien direct) | Hackers are selling the Medicare card numbers of Australians on the 'dark web', which could be used to steal private health records. The Federal Government has confirmed it's urgently investigating the security breach and has referred the matter to the Australian Federal Police. A journalist from The Guardian revealed he was able to purchase his own Medicare ... | |||
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2017-07-04 09:06:41 | EMEA businesses turn to public cloud in spite of security doubts (lien direct) | Businesses in EMEA are increasing their investment in public cloud, despite ongoing security concerns and a perceived lack of understanding about who is responsible for keeping their data safe, according to the findings of a study of IT decision makers released today by Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), the leader in Cloud-enabled security and data ... | Guideline | ★★★★★ | |
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2017-07-03 11:24:59 | 71% of UK Consumers Agree Fake News is a Growing Problem (lien direct) | Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a leader in cloud and big data integration software, commissioned a new international consumer and IT business survey. This survey conducted by Researchscape reveals that 71% of UK consumers agree that 'fake news' is a growing problem that makes them 'distrust the news and data that is available publicly'. According to the survey, US and German citizens ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-07-03 10:36:16 | NotPetya Ransomware Frequently Ask Questions (FAQ) (lien direct) | What has happened? A new outbreak of ransomware, a form of malware which encrypts your files and demands a ransom payment to recover them, has hit organisations globally. It appears to be a derivative of the previously seen Petya ransomware, but with some differences. Many researchers have cast doubt on whether this really is a ... | NotPetya | ||
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2017-07-03 10:26:45 | Facebook drone that could bring global internet access completes test flight (lien direct) | Mark Zuckerberg's long-term plan for the Aquila drone is to have it and others provide internet access to 4bn people around the world who are in the dark View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Guardian | |||
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2017-07-03 10:22:16 | BCS Launches Bid to Prevent Another NHS WannaCry Epidemic (lien direct) | BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is leading a new effort to improve cybersecurity within the NHS in a bid to head off another WannaCry-style incident. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Info Security Magazine | Guideline | Wannacry | |
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2017-07-03 10:20:22 | NATO attributed the massive NotPetya attack to a \'state actor\' and call for a joint investigation (lien direct) | According to NATO, the recent massive attack based on NotPetya ransomware was powered by a “state actor.†The malware infected over 12,000 devices in around 65 countries, the malicious code hit major industries and critical infrastructure. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Security Affairs | NotPetya | ||
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2017-07-03 10:18:21 | Ukraine: Russian security services were behind cyberattack (lien direct) | The Ukrainian security agency, known as the SBU, alleged in a statement that similarities between the malicious software and previous attacks on Ukrainian infrastructure revealed the work of Russian intelligence services. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Fox News | |||
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2017-07-03 09:18:52 | Germany gears up to defend against possible G20 cyber attacks (lien direct) | Arne Schoenbohm, president of Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI), said authorities had set up a 24/7 special command center to defend against such attacks, just as it was preparing for any physical violence. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Reuters | |||
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2017-07-03 09:14:19 | WannaCry virus fails to stimulate surge in Cyber insurance, according to FWD broker research (lien direct) | The recent 'WannaCry' ransomware virus attack was heralded as the wake-up call for businesses concerned about their cyber security. A recent survey of 250 UK insurance broking firms, however, shows that following the attack there has surprisingly been little increase at all in the number of enquiries for Cyber insurance cover. The research, carried out ... | Wannacry | ||
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2017-06-30 14:28:05 | Over 90% of cyber security experts believe the UK\'s political landscape has been manipulated by fake news (lien direct) | Â DomainTools, the leader in domain name and DNS-based cyber threat intelligence, today announced the results of a survey which found that 91% of cyber security professionals believe that the UK's political landscape has been manipulated by fake news. When asked if they thought that they had personally been affected by fake news, 61% agreed that ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-06-30 10:00:49 | Petya ransomware attack: How UK businesses can stay protected online (lien direct) | The recent Petya attack hit companies across Europe and the US Ebuyer offers businesses across the UK tips on how to protect themselves from online ransomware Yesterday (27th June, 2017), businesses and organisations across Europe and the US were hit by a large-scale cyber attack, known as Petya, leaving them unable to access systems and ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-06-30 09:56:28 | The costs of VPNs: It\'s not the printer…it\'s the ink (lien direct) | While today's printer manufacturers might make a little money on their hardware, it's the ink that brings in the big profits. The same concept applies to razors and razorblades. It turns out it's also true for something as ubiquitous and seemingly well understood as the virtual private network (VPN). Today, practically every company has ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-06-30 09:35:59 | Rebuffing Ransomware: Common Sense Advice from CompTIA (lien direct) | The Petya ransomware attack – the second major global cyberattack in two months – left a trail of locked computers and compromised networks in some 65 countries around the world. Like the WannaCry attack in May, Petya this week exposed weaknesses in cybersecurity defenses. It also reinforces the notion that it's a case of when, ... | Wannacry | ||
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2017-06-30 09:30:57 | 8Tracks Breach Exposes Millions of Accounts (lien direct) | Internet radio service 8tracks was hacked this week and personal details associated with a reported 18 million user accounts compromised. In a blog post, the firm's founder and CEO, David Porter, claimed that no financial data, phone numbers or postal addresses were exposed, but email addresses and encrypted passwords were. “Passwords on 8tracks are hashed ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-06-30 09:29:47 | Lloyd\'s: Businesses Need To Take A Long-Term View Of Cyber Attacks (lien direct) | It's no longer enough for organisations to just focus on the immediate impacts. Businesses are failing to take into account the long-term impacts of falling victim to a cyber attack, according to a report from Lloyd's of London. The report, created in conjunction with KPMG and law firm DAC Beachcroft, suggests that European businesses are ... | ★★ |
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