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July 2024 ransomware attack on the City of Columbus impacted 500,000 people

Security Affairs

The July 2024 ransomware attack that hit the City of Columbus, Ohio, exposed the personal and financial data of 500,000 individuals. On July 18, 2024, the City of Columbus, Ohio, suffered a cyber attack that impacted the City’s services. On July 29, 2024, the City published an update on the City’s website and confirmed that the City of Columbus suffered a ransomware attack.

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One third of consumers would prefer working with AI agents for faster service

Collaboration 2.0

Many consumers are happy to communicate with an AI agent but also want to know when that conversation is happening.

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Inside the Massive Crime Industry That’s Hacking Billion-Dollar Companies

WIRED Threat Level

When you download a piece of pirated software, you might also be getting a piece of infostealer malware, and entering a highly complex hacking ecosystem that’s fueling some of the biggest breaches on the planet.

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Upgrade to Microsoft Office Pro and Windows 11 Pro for 87% off

Collaboration 2.0

This lifetime license bundle deal gives you access to the entire Microsoft Office Pro 2021 suite and Windows 11 Pro for just $53 for a limited time.

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From Curiosity to Competitive Edge: How Mid-Market CEOs Are Using AI to Scale Smarter

Speaker: Lee Andrews, Founder at LJA New Media & Tony Karrer, Founder and CTO at Aggregage

This session will walk you through how one CEO used generative AI, workflow automation, and sales personalization to transform an entire security company—then built the Zero to Strategy framework that other mid-market leaders are now using to unlock 3.5x ROI. As a business executive, you’ll learn how to assess AI opportunities in your business, drive adoption across teams, and overcome internal resource constraints—without hiring a single data scientist.

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Bypassing ChatGPT Safety Guardrails, One Emoji at a Time

Data Breach Today

Mozilla Researcher Uses Non-Natural Language to Jailbreak GPT-4o Anyone can jailbreak GPT-4o's security guardrails with hexadecimal encoding and emojis. A Mozilla researcher demonstrated the jailbreaking technique, tricking OpenAI's latest model into generating python exploits and malicious SQL injection tools.

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Attack Hits Small Rural Georgia Hospital, Nursing Home

Data Breach Today

Memorial Hospital and Manor Tapping Its Experience Dealing With Downtime Procedures A small community hospital and its nursing home in rural Georgia have resorted to paper charts and other manual process for patient care as they deal with a ransomware attack discovered Saturday that knocked its electronic health records and other IT systems offline.

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How Netscape lives on: 30 years of shaping the web, open source, and business

Collaboration 2.0

Netscape, the browser that launched the web revolution, was a cultural phenomenon. While the company is long gone, it helped create today's tech world.

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Vulnerability Recap 11/4/24 – Fourteen-Year Bug Finally Gets Patched

eSecurity Planet

We’re looking at cloud credential theft (not good) and a big win for early vulnerability fixes (better) this week, as well as critical Mitsubishi Electric and Rockwell Automation bugs that could affect industrial control environments. Additionally, a SSL certificate weakness in qBittorrent has finally been fixed after 14 years of vulnerability. Also, Microsoft hasn’t yet developed a fix for Windows 11 downgrade attacks, which were first announced this summer at the Black Hat conference.

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Linux Lite just got a useful AI feature for desktop - and it's more subtle than you think

Collaboration 2.0

Linux Lite is a lightweight distribution aimed at reviving older desktops, and with the latest release, the developers have (sort of) added AI into the mix.

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Agent Tooling: Connecting AI to Your Tools, Systems & Data

Speaker: Alex Salazar, CEO & Co-Founder @ Arcade | Nate Barbettini, Founding Engineer @ Arcade | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO @ Aggregage

There’s a lot of noise surrounding the ability of AI agents to connect to your tools, systems and data. But building an AI application into a reliable, secure workflow agent isn’t as simple as plugging in an API. As an engineering leader, it can be challenging to make sense of this evolving landscape, but agent tooling provides such high value that it’s critical we figure out how to move forward.

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SEC Moves to Get Foreign Testimony in SolarWinds Fraud Case

Data Breach Today

Testimony Request Targets Cybersecurity Concerns Raised by Ex-SolarWinds Engineer In its fraud case against SolarWinds, the SEC is pursuing testimony from former SolarWinds engineer Robert Krajcir - who lives in the Czech Republic - to address claims of lax cybersecurity practices. SolarWinds - which is also representing Krajcir - has until Friday to respond to the SEC's motion.

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How the 2024 US presidential election will determine tech's future

Collaboration 2.0

The two candidates have starkly different approaches to regulation and privacy. Here's what each administration could mean for the industry and individuals.

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ABB Smart Building Software Flaws Invite In Hackers

Data Breach Today

Proof of Concepts Available for Cylon Aspect Energy Management Software Vulnerabilities in a smart building energy management system including an easily exploitable, two-year-old flaw that hasn't been widely patched could let hackers take over instances misconfigured to allow internet exposure. The flaws affect Cylon Aspect software from electrical engineering firm ABB.

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Claude AI can now analyze PDFs - here's how to try it (and why you'll want to)

Collaboration 2.0

The new Visual PDFs feature is now available in beta. Here's the breakdown of its capabilities.

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Automation, Evolved: Your New Playbook for Smarter Knowledge Work

Speaker: Frank Taliano

Documents are the backbone of enterprise operations, but they are also a common source of inefficiency. From buried insights to manual handoffs, document-based workflows can quietly stall decision-making and drain resources. For large, complex organizations, legacy systems and siloed processes create friction that AI is uniquely positioned to resolve.

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The Role of Secrets Management in Securing Financial Services

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Role of Secrets Management in Securing Financial Services madhav Tue, 11/05/2024 - 04:30 Secrets management is one of the top DevOps challenges. According to 2024 Thales Global Data Threat Report: Financial Services , FinServ organizations face greater security challenges in securing cloud infrastructure and focus on locking down secrets in development operations.

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Perplexity AI offers election results tracker and voter resource - try it here

Collaboration 2.0

The Election Information Hub aims to aggregate data about the US elections, but its AI has already gotten some facts wrong. Here's what to know.

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Celebrating 5 Million Learners: The Evolution of KnowBe4's Compliance Plus

KnowBe4

When you think of KnowBe4, you might immediately picture phishing simulations, password security modules, or other security awareness training topics.

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Raspberry Pi is getting a new touchscreen display - and I love the upgrades

Collaboration 2.0

The new Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 is arguably the best (and easiest) way to give your system more utility. Here's what's new.

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State of AI in Sales & Marketing 2025

AI adoption is reshaping sales and marketing. But is it delivering real results? We surveyed 1,000+ GTM professionals to find out. The data is clear: AI users report 47% higher productivity and an average of 12 hours saved per week. But leaders say mainstream AI tools still fall short on accuracy and business impact. Download the full report today to see how AI is being used — and where go-to-market professionals think there are gaps and opportunities.

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Collibra recognized as a Champion in the 2024 Bloor Research Data Governance Market Update

Collibra

Data governance is vital for organizations to access trustworthy and secure data. It enables them to answer key questions like “Who are our most profitable customers?” and “What is our competitors’ best-selling product?” Challenges arise without standard definitions for product classifications and cost allocations. By designating business ownership of core data assets, data governance helps resolve conflicting definitions and overlaps.

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Your iPhone's next iOS 18.2 update may come earlier than usual - with these AI features

Collaboration 2.0

iOS 18.2 - which includes major improvements to Apple Intelligence, will arrive sooner than you think, barring any unexpected delays.

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Sophos Versus the Chinese Hackers

Schneier on Security

Really interesting story of Sophos’s five-year war against Chinese hackers.

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I'm a hardware Android user - but likely won't upgrade to Pixel 10 for the reason that Google thinks

Collaboration 2.0

Manufacturers are betting on AI to be the future of phones. That might be the case, but is that what consumers want or need?

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How to Achieve High-Accuracy Results When Using LLMs

Speaker: Ben Epstein, Stealth Founder & CTO | Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO, Aggregage

When tasked with building a fundamentally new product line with deeper insights than previously achievable for a high-value client, Ben Epstein and his team faced a significant challenge: how to harness LLMs to produce consistent, high-accuracy outputs at scale. In this new session, Ben will share how he and his team engineered a system (based on proven software engineering approaches) that employs reproducible test variations (via temperature 0 and fixed seeds), and enables non-LLM evaluation m

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Your KnowBe4 Compliance Plus Fresh Content Updates from October 2024

KnowBe4

Check out the October updates in Compliance Plus so you can stay on top of featured compliance training content.

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3 ways to stop Android apps running in the background - and why I always do

Collaboration 2.0

I make sure to regularly - and manually - stop apps from running in the background on my Android phone. Is that absolutely necessary? Maybe not, but my habit does ensure optimal resources and privacy. Try it yourself.

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If Social Engineering Is 70% - 90% of Attacks, Why Aren’t We Acting Like It?

KnowBe4

Over a decade ago, I noticed that social engineering was the primary cause for all malicious hacking. It has been that way since the beginning of computers, but it took me about half of my 36-year career to realize it.

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Google is ending Android Auto support for older phones. Here's why (and the simple fix)

Collaboration 2.0

After announcing the change earlier this year, Google is officially enforcing the new requirements to run the in-car software on devices running Android 8.

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The GTM Intelligence Era: ZoomInfo 2025 Customer Impact Report

ZoomInfo customers aren’t just selling — they’re winning. Revenue teams using our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform grew pipeline by 32%, increased deal sizes by 40%, and booked 55% more meetings. Download this report to see what 11,000+ customers say about our Go-To-Market Intelligence platform and how it impacts their bottom line. The data speaks for itself!

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Why Adding Biometrics to Employee Time Clocks Makes a Lot of “Cents”

HID Global

Explore how fingerprint biometric employee time clocks boost accuracy and efficiency, offering a secure and cost-effective solution for workforce management.

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The 19 best Black Friday headphone deals 2024: Early sales live now

Collaboration 2.0

Black Friday is a few weeks away, but it's never too early to start holiday shopping for your next pair of headphones or earbuds (or one to gift). We found some of the best early deals from Beats, Sony, Bose, and more.

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Nigerian man Sentenced to 26+ years in real estate phishing scams

Security Affairs

Nigerian Kolade Ojelade gets 26 years in U.S. for phishing scams that stole millions by hacking email accounts. A Nigerian national was sentenced to 26 years in prison in the US for stealing millions by compromising the email accounts of real estate businesses. The Nigerian national, Kolade Ojelade, Kolade Akinwale Ojelade (34), a resident of Leicester (UK) was sentenced to 26 years in U.S. for phishing scams that resulted in the compromise of millions of email accounts. “A Nigerian man wa

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