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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Here are a few key takeaways: The security bottleneck The next great leap forward in digital technologies will give us driverless ground transportation, green cities that continually optimize energy usage and self-improving medical treatments. Math can do this – and iO is the consensus solution, though at the moment it is a missing piece.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

But, of course, the nature of ransomware attacks makes it hard for organisations to determine how many records were affected. unknown) Criminal hackers attack Ehrmann, demand millions in ransom (unknown) Criminal hackers attack Energy Hamburg Radio (unknown) Chemical distribution company Brenntag paid a $4.4

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Of course our guest on this episode, he already knew all that. It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever. You've had some partnerships with the Department of Energy and also with Sisa. My name is Tom Van Norman. I'm the co-founder of ICS village.