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Laura Mercurio's Xmas Messages:-)

As the year draws to a close I would like to wish all my clients, family and friends near and far a very Merry Xmas & an awesome New Year. Please take care and travel safe this Xmas and New Year.

Best Wishes for Xmas and Here's to 2019!

Following on from earlier The Rattle news if you are looking for something cool to do in 2019 & have some great skills to share then apply for a mentor role.

In the words of Plato: “Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.”

If you don't already know, The Rattle is heading to the US. Having spent quite a bit of time with these guys since inception, mentoring some awesome artists and entrepreneurial talent and generally having a great time the team are now in their final stages of their fundraising.

So forget buying nic nacs and dust collectors this Xmas, get someone the gift of being part of a Global Music Movement. There are 9 days to go so check out their fundraising campaign here:

https://lnkd.in/dkZu5-j

Any questions then reach out to the super team:
Chris Howard, Jessica McCarten, Bobby Bloomfield, Jon Eades

The Rattle is raising £800,000 investment on Crowdcube. Capital At Risk. The Rattle is a re-imagined co-working space & collective for founders in music. Over 100 artists, tech makers, and cultural pioneers have made The Rattle their home to develop their talents into thriving startups. The Rattle is expanding to LA with plans for NYC and backed by music & technology roy...

Hey Musos... you’ve heard me talk about The Rattle... I was at BBC live on the weekend and it was epic!

If you want to get in The Rattle then applications are now open! Get in quick spaces get filled quickly with awesome talent.

Good news in the budget for Aussies. Just like the good ole days

We warmly welcome the announcement that Aussie passport holders will soon be able to use ePassport gates at UK airports!

We've been working towards this for some time so it is great to be able to share this news. ✈️

To read more about the 2018 Budget: https://bit.ly/2Q4nRgX

The below is Thanks to Ares Risk Management. Please contact Anna M Heim if you need immediate help

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BREAKING NEWS:
This just crossed my desk and is too important to hold off posting till tomorrow... I don't know how many in the UK might be using an app with origins in New Zealand, notwithstanding the www is a global place and we all use apps from across the world... so

If you are using Chrome browser extension from the MEGA file storage service, uninstall it right now.

The official Chrome extension for the MEGA.nz cloud storage service had been compromised and replaced with a malicious version that can steal users' credentials for popular websites like Amazon, Microsoft, Github, and Google, as well as private keys for users' cryptocurrency wallets.

On 4 September at 14:30 UTC, an unknown attacker managed to hack into MEGA's Google Chrome web store account and upload a malicious version 3.39.4 of an extension to the web store, according to a blog post published by the company.

Malicious MEGA Chrome Extension Steals Passwords!

Please note this ONLY affects Chrome users which use the Mega Chrome Extension!

Mega have updated their app to a clean version within 4 hours of the attack, please go to their website to get a clean version. (https://mega.nz)

Google removed the infected app from their app store within 5 hours of being notified of the attack and as yet, the app has not been republished to the Google App Store.

The Bottom line:
Users who had installed the malicious extension should uninstall the MEGA extension version 3.39.4 right now, and change passwords for all your accounts, especially for those you may have used while having the malicious extension.

MEGA MEGA provides free cloud storage with convenient and powerful always-on privacy. Claim your free 50GB now

Final day at ... busy start & a few sore heads from last nights networking events around London.

So far we have heard from:
- Sean Walsh talking Bitcoin price elasticity. Very different to my economic lectures back in the day
- Open bazaar on the dangers of small business being reliant on centralised sales venues such as amazon, eBay etc especially now that we are seeing decentralised platforms coming into play
- NEKTI on quick & accurate implementation of KYC for people and organisations
- A great panel discussion
- And now Polymath talks the future is securities and how they make it easy for business to launch a compliant token

Stay tuned... more to come

Today & tomorrow I’ll be at the World Blockchain Forum. Lots of learning, new info, great companies talking everything blockchain, crypto, ICO & more.

Head on over to my linked in page to keep up to date

http://linkedin.com/in/lmercurio

Ps: a conference with an open bar all day.. lol 😂

Hello Silicon Valley...the power of networking I wanted this to be a simple update but it was in excess of my character limit for Linked in so here we are with a slightly more extended exciting

The 11 Stages of your work day

The future of data protection is always an interesting one. This is an interesting article about GDPR and AI. Do you think GDPR stifles AI development or does it ensure that AI implementation is done correctly? What are your thoughts?

GDPR Seen Slowing AI Innovation Pending European data privacy rules that also address “automated decision-making” are increasingly seen as having a broad impact on enterprise deployment