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Leaked documents from Russian firm NTC Vulkan show Sandworm cyberwarfare arsenal

Security Affairs

These projects include tools, training programs, and a red team platform for exercising various types of offensive cyber operations, including cyber espionage, IO, and operational technology (OT) attacks.” The company was commissioned for the development of tools, training programs, and a hacking platform.

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Professional associations have work to do

CILIP

m really concerned about is that we are reaching our younger members, because there is a shift in the utility of professional organisations for younger professionals. She said that Covid-19 had made the link between education and students? She added that staff training would be needed as well as diversification: ?We Frankly, it?s

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A Soccer Field on the Data Center, Chickens in the Parking Lot - in Northern Virginia

Interactive Information Management

They become (and currently are) an attractant for other data centers, service providers and a well-educated workforce, a magnet, the "cool factor", a "symbol of transformation", generating tons of political capital and psychological benefit – which tends to be very desirable and valuable in this area near Washington DC.

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How AI Could Write Our Laws

Schneier on Security

Big energy companies expect action whenever there is a move to end drilling leases for federal lands, in exchange for the tens of millions they contribute to congressional reelection campaigns. The bill appealed to many privacy-conscious education advocates, and appropriately so. Training data is available.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

For example, in 2009, the Obama administration provided financial incentives to utilities in the United States. And again, smart meters were positioned squarely as making the environment more friendly by knowing how and when energy is being used by individual customers. The train keeps going. Vamosi: That's curious.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

It's individual pieces of it that fall apart and become a nightmare for that company or that utility or whatever. Here’s the PBS News Hour: PBS NEWS HOUR: Judy Woodruff: The federal government today confirmed that a Russian criminal group is behind the hacking of a crucial energy pipeline. Van Norman: Absolutely.

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The CyberWire Daily Podcast EP. 389 With Guest Speaker David Brumley

ForAllSecure

Its apparent goal is espionage directed against the financial and energy sectors. Department of Education warned that there had been active and ongoing exploitation of the Ellucian Banner system. The Department of Education says the phony accounts are almost immediately being put to unspecified criminal use.

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