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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, August 2020 Edition

Krebs on Security

The most concerning of these appears to be CVE-2020-1380 , which is a weaknesses in Internet Explorer that could result in system compromise just by browsing with IE to a hacked or malicious website. More information on CVE-2020-1337, including a video demonstration of a proof-of-concept exploit, is available here.

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UK ICO Reprimands London Hackney Council for 2020 Hack

Data Breach Today

The Pysa ransomware group claimed credit for encrypting 440,000 files in 2020. s data watchdog on Wednesday reprimanded London's Hackney Council over its failure to protect the data of nearly 280,000 town residents from a ransomware hack that resulted in attackers leaking sensitive data.

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Patch Tuesday, November 2020 Edition

Krebs on Security

” A chief concern among all these updates this month is CVE-2020-17087 , which is an “important” bug in the Windows kernel that is already seeing active exploitation. “With no details provided by Microsoft, we can only assume this is the bypass of CVE-2020-16875 he had previously mentioned,” Childs said.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, June 2020 Edition

Krebs on Security

Perhaps most troubling of these ( CVE-2020-1301 ) is a remote code execution bug in SMB capabilities built into Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 systems — both operating systems that Microsoft stopped supporting with security updates in January 2020. Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative June 2020 patch lowdown.

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Report by Dresner Advisory Services: Embedded Business Intelligence Market Study

According to the 2020 Dresner Embedded Business Intelligence Market Study, embedded business intelligence is crucial for application success. This report explores the current state of BI and why application teams are increasingly choosing an embedded solution.

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday, October 2020 Edition

Krebs on Security

Worst in terms of outright scariness is probably CVE-2020-16898 , which is a nasty bug in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019 that could be abused to install malware just by sending a malformed packet of data at a vulnerable system. CVE-2020-16898 earned a CVSS Score of 9.8 (10 10 is the most awful).

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2020 Breach Statistics: An Analysis

Data Breach Today

data breaches in 2020 isn't all good news; it reflects that hackers are changing their tactics, says James Lee of the Identity Theft Resource Center, who offers an analysis of the center's new data breach report. James Lee of the Identity Theft Resource Center Discusses Reasons Behind Breach Decline The decline in the total number of U.S.

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7 Questions Every App Team Should Ask

In its 2020 Embedded BI Market Study, Dresner Advisory Services continues to identify the importance of embedded analytics in technologies and initiatives strategic to business intelligence. Which sophisticated analytics capabilities can give your application a competitive edge?

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5 Early Indicators Your Embedded Analytics Will Fail

Many application teams leave embedded analytics to languish until something—an unhappy customer, plummeting revenue, a spike in customer churn—demands change. But by then, it may be too late. In this White Paper, Logi Analytics has identified 5 tell-tale signs your project is moving from “nice to have” to “needed yesterday.".

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5 Essential Pieces of a Prospecting Solution

Is your team focused on building a reliable tech stack for 2020? Forward thinking sales leaders are starting to prioritize technology initiatives. As organizations chase new revenue targets, B2B sales leaders must examine cutting edge prospecting solutions that proactively help reps identify, connect with, and close qualified buyers faster.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

This report aims to highlight the current state of B2B database and contact acquisition strategies and organizations’ goals to leverage data to fuel their go-to-market strategies in 2020 and beyond.

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The Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020: Initial Catalysts, Current Implications, and Future Impacts

Speaker: Elizabeth "Paige" Baumann, Founder and CEO of Paige Baumann Advisory, LLC

In this webinar, you'll be provided with a clear overview of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (AMLA), which also includes the Corporate Transparency Act (CTA). The AMLA represents the most significant changes in U.S. anti-money laundering laws since the USA PATRIOT Act of 2001.

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TCO Considerations of Using a Cloud Data Warehouse for BI and Analytics

Enterprises are pouring money into data management software – to the tune of $73 billion in 2020 – but are seeing very little return on their data investments.

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How to Solve 4 Common Challenges of Legacy Information Management

Speaker: Chris McLaughlin, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Product Officer, Nuxeo

February 27, 2020 9:30AM PST, 12:30PM EST, 5:30PM GMT. How a platform-based approach can solve modern content challenges. Strategies to avoid the risks of modernization by future-proofing your organizational infrastructure.

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Shift Left Security? Development Does Not Want to Own It.

Speaker: Shlomo Bielak, CTO, Benchmark Corp

Tuesday December 8, 2020 at 11AM PDT, 2PM EST, 7PM GMT. How a belief that DevOps resources are jack of all trades can increase your risks, not lessen. Slowing down development is not a skills gap it is just a gap in perspective and integration. How we see shift left is undermining it further.