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Millions of IoT Devices exposed to remote hacks due to iLnkP2P flaws

Security Affairs

Roughly 50% of vulnerable devices is manufactured by Chinese company Hichip. Marrapese also built a proof-of-concept attack to demonstrate how to steal passwords from devices by abusing their built-in “heartbeat” feature, but he will not release it to prevent abuse. The researcher published technical details on his discovery here.

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University of Florida Brings eDiscovery Teachings to a Chinese University: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

discovery obligations, but also understand the methodologies and technologies associated with managing eDiscovery. William Hamilton, legal skills professor and executive director of the University of Florida’s E-Discovery Project, led the course, which took place at Southeast University during the last two weeks of August.

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Why You Need to Tune EDR to Secure Your Environment

eSecurity Planet

Also read: How to Use MITRE ATT&CK to Understand Attacker Behavior. In a big multinational electronics manufacturer, for example, the accounting team may need to enable macros for their complex Excel spreadsheets, but the sales executives may not have any reason to do so. Context-Specific Alerts.

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10 everyday machine learning use cases

IBM Big Data Hub

Text-based queries are usually handled by chatbots, virtual agents that most businesses provide on their e-commerce sites. The discovery and manufacturing of new medications, which traditionally go through involved, expensive and time-consuming tests, can be sped up using ML.

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IoT Unravelled Part 3: Security

Troy Hunt

I've been directly involved in the discovery or disclosure of a heap of these and indeed, security is normally the thing I most commonly write about. There's no consistency across manufacturers or devices either in terms of defaulting to auto-updates or even where to find updates.

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Vulnerability Management Policy Template

eSecurity Planet

How to use this template: Comments intended to guide understanding and use of this template will be enclosed in brackets “[…]” and the ‘company’ will be listed as [eSecurity Planet] throughout the document. eSecurity Planet may receive a commission from vendor links.

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Anonymization & Pseudonymization as Tools for Cross-Border Discovery Compliance

ARMA International

discovery demands against the requirements of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This turn of events has many companies scrambling to determine how to cope with the conflict between U.S. discovery and international privacy rules. Introduction. See, inter alia , Laydon v.