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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Government organizations combine the best of both the energy and healthcare industries for scammers, with government entities both having access to sensitive information and being necessary to the day-to-day lives of citizens. In 2020 alone, 79 ransomware attacks were conducted against government entities in the U.S.,

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On Finding Rabindranath Tagore

Unwritten Record

How might Rabindranath Tagore—an Indian (Bengali) writer and poet, educator, musician, and visionary—have crossed paths with the federal government of the United States? The records of several government agencies reveal even more about Tagore’s complex relationship with the West, especially the U.S. Less than two years later, the U.S.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government. Vamosi: This is bad. Test your systems.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Healthcare

ForAllSecure

A network monitoring company for the federal government and other large companies, Solar Winds, had been breached. And then the tools are used by government entities and accruals are used by big industries and it's one of the more popular and robust packages out there. Now, our government. Vamosi: This is bad. Test your systems.

IT 52
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Predictions 2018: How I Did. (Pretty Damn Well, Turns Out)

John Battelle's Searchblog

In March, it had a government AI contract blow up in its face, leading to employee protests and resignations. Lots of great companies did great things – Salesforce, a leader in corporate responsibility, even hired a friend of mine to be Chief Ethics Officer. Predictions 2011. 2011: How I Did. Predictions 2016.