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“Beyond the border scam”, pay attention to the instance of the new Nigerian fraud

Security Affairs

Following up on the electronic letter, the alleged widow begins a copious correspondence in which she says she was left completely alone after the death of her husband and children and without a home or money and hosted in a border refugee camp, where she feeds herself. during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022.

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Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Security Affairs

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware.

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Social engineering, deception becomes increasingly sophisticated

Security Affairs

This is done through deep learning methodologies such as the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) i.e., a group of neural network models for machine learning, deputed to teach computers how to process information by emulating the human brain.

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Arup Library: 60 years

CILIP

the librarian residing in the basement surrounded by piles of books and magazines? Arup Library in the Electronic Age. This followed the successful transfer of Arup job records to a DEC10 Mainframe computer in 1978, which greatly sped up the data handling managed by the library. In 1968, Peter Hoggett took over Arup Library.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

” The event, which was captured on video and also reported in Wired magazine, sent a message to the automotive industry. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. The airline industry wrote it off as an unlikely scenario.

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Part 3: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about effecting risk management and change management?

ARMA International

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computer model to deliver transformative change. A cloud-first “mind-shift” implies using a cloud computing model, which exposes an organization to risks on the Internet, where data is considered “digital gold” that cyber criminals want to steal. 2020, p 6).

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Why aren't we getting enterprise RSS yet?

ChiefTech

I think this comment points at a symptom of why the adoption of enterprise RSS is so slow - and that is RSS is still very much misunderstood by the corporate computing world, Gartner included. And enterprise RSS ecosystems like that from Attensa are secure, accessible and easy to manage. Without having to work so hard at it.