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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">1. At MIT: History of Online Spam and Scamming</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">2. MIT and Cambridge University Hackathon</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">3. SANS Institute Online Security Training</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">4. Seven Attack Trends</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Artists: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Exhibit: I Must First Apologize</div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Where: MIT List Visual Arts Center (E15) </div>
<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">When: Through April 17, 2016</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">The culmination of a major project by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige,
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this exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center</a> presents a body of work that looks at the history of online spam and scamming through film, sculpture, photography, and installation. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Hadjithomas and Joreige have collected and archived a certain kind of spam e-mail—unsolicited messages from strangers—since 1999. These are schemes rooted in historical confidence
tricks such as <i class="">The Spanish Prisoner</i>, which dates back to the sixteenth century. Aimed at swindling the recipient into transferring money to alleviate various invented personal hardships, collectively these e-mail scams delineate a map of recent
geopolitical conflict, social unrest, and economic upheaval. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">This exhibition is accompanied by the artists’ book:
<a href="http://listart.mit.edu/publications" class=""><i class="">The Rumors of the World: Rethinking Trust in the Age of the Internet</i></a>, edited by Omar Khalif and published by Sternberg Press.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Students from MIT and the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England, competed in a series of cyber challenges over the weekend (March 4-5). The competition is dubbed
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Events included a 24-hour Capture the Flag competition with blended teams, as well as password-cracking, lock-picking, and code-breaking challenges.</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><b class=""><u class="">3. SANS Institute Online Security Training</u></b></div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">The SANS Institute offers courses to professionals who are looking for information security training. More than 30 of the SANS Institute's most popular information security courses
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forensics, incident handling or security management, there are a variety of online options </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><a href="https://www.sans.org/online-security-training/specials" class="">For a limited time, SANS is offering a new iPad mini 4 with any on demand or vLive course through March
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">At the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, researchers with the SANS Institute shared
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a run-down of the threats and attack techniques</a> that have come to the forefront lately, and which the security industry will be dealing with the most in the year to come. </div>
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<div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">The list:</div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Weaponization of Windows PowerShell
</li><li style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Stagefright-like mobile vulnerabilities
</li><li style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Developer environment vulnerabilities such as Xcode Ghost
</li><li style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Attacks on global infrastructure control systems (ICS)
</li><li style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Targeting insecure third-party software components
</li><li style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">Turning the Internet of Things evil
</li><li style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">The push of ransomware due to changing malware economics
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