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MY TAKE: Why ‘basic research’ is so vital to bringing digital transformation to full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Biomedical engineer Dr. Joe Alexander, the former medical director at pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, grabbed a distinguished scientist post, as well. Digital commerce exists in the form we have it today because of the Public Key Infrastructure, or PKI , our system for encrypting data and certifying its authenticity.

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NEW TECH: How Semperis came to close a huge gap in Active Directory disaster preparedness

The Last Watchdog

Related: Why Active Directory is so heavily targeted For companies running Microsoft Windows, one such touch-all systems is Active Directory, or AD, the software that organizes and provides access to information across the breadth of Windows systems. Whoever was behind NotPetya leveraged cyber weapons stolen from the NSA. “If

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SILENTFADE a long-running malware campaign targeted Facebook AD platform

Security Affairs

The attackers primarily ran malicious ad campaigns, often in the form of advertising pharmaceutical pills and spam with fake celebrity endorsements.” A malware running on an infected endpoint could access cookie store if has the knowledge of its location in the various browsers. ” continues the paper.