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WEBEx-senior New York State staffer charged in cash-for-favors scandal with China. Bagging two posh properties, three luxury cars on a govt salary a bit of a giveaway – allegedly.
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WEBOneFileLinux: A tiny recovery distro that fits snugly in your EFI system partition. The kind of thing the big names should be doing instead of working with proprietary vendors. MI6 and CIA using generative AI to combat tech-driven threat actors. Spook bosses use first-ever joint article to bemoan how Russia and China use tech to mess with the ...
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WEBCybersecurity regulation stepping up. Understanding new NIS2, DORA, and Tiber-EU legislation is essential to improving IT security, explains SANS. Webinar. Upgrading Linux with Rust looks like a new challenge. It's one of our oldest. Opinion From the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever built. Not even a kernel.
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WEBGNU screen 5 proves it's still got game even after 37 years. First major version in two decades is worth getting to know. UK trio pleads guilty to operating $10M MFA bypass biz. The group bragged they could steal one-time passwords from Apply Pay and 30+ sites. Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all.
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WEBEpisode 1 Er, I mean, droid. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the OFFICE OF NEVERMORE. BOFH 22 Jan 2021 | 75. BOFH: Time for the MMOCC. You know, the Massively Moronic Online Christmas Call. Episode 10 This year, starring an utterly, er, empowering personal presence guru.
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WEBThe technology was willing, but the cache was weak. Novel attack on Windows spotted in phishing campaign run from and targeting China. Resources hosted at Tencent Cloud involved in Cobalt Strike campaign. Black horse down: Lloyds online banking services go dark. Customers report inability to view transactions.
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WEBPatch Tuesday Plus: Adobe, SAP, Fortinet, VMware, Cisco issue pressing updates. Security 5 months | 22. Easy-to-use make-me-root exploit lands for recent Linux kernels. Get patching. CVE-2024-1086 turns the page tables …
110K domains targeted by 'sophisticated' cloud extortionists
WEBAug 21, 2024 · Security shop Cyble released some research this week after finding 110,000 domains targeted by attackers exploiting misconfigured .env files, which typically contain secrets such as hard-coded cloud access keys, SaaS API keys, and database login information, the researchers said. In this particular cluster of activity, attackers are …
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WEBScience 17 hrs | 3. SQL king Larry Ellison becomes sequel sultan with controlling interest in Paramount Global. Oh, great: another tech billionaire owns a media company – although his son probably runs the show. Offbeat 1 day | 20. NASA's solar sailing spacecraft is tumbling – but that's part of the plan.
Twitter probes privacy breach claims affecting 5.4m users
WEBJul 25, 2022 · Twitter is investigating claims that a near-seven-month-old vulnerability in its software has been exploited to obtain Twitter account IDs linked to phone numbers and email addresses of a reported 5.4 million users. A miscreant using the handle "devil" claims to have siphoned the details and is selling it all on a cyber-crime forum, according ...