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U.S. Govt. Apps Bundled Russian Code With Ties to Mobile Malware Developer

Krebs on Security

Army and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were integrating software that sends visitor data to a Russian company called Pushwoosh , which claims to be based in the United States. state of Delaware, where it is registered, an omission which could violate state law,” Reuters reported.

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The History of Computer Viruses & Malware

eSecurity Planet

A 2020 study of pentesting projects from Positive Technologies revealed that external attackers could breach 93% of company networks , with 71% being vulnerable even to novice-level hackers. The history of computer viruses and malware goes almost as far back as the history of the field of computer science itself. CATCH ME IF YOU CAN!”

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Opening the House Foreign Affairs Committee web archive

Archive-It

Bilby, Senior Assistant Librarian, California State University, Fullerton. Videos of 2013-2019 House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) hearings unavailable from C-SPAN are now available for public viewing from a new web archive curated by California State University, Fullerton. So it was with the HFAC website.

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Project Svalbard: The Future of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Back in 2013, I was beginning to get the sense that data breaches were becoming a big thing. The prevalence of them seemed to be really ramping up as was the impact they were having on those of us that found ourselves in them, myself included. And so Have I Been Pwned was born. It's alive! "Have "Have I been pwned?"