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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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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.” ” continues the paper. The malware sends the data to the C2 servers in the form of an encrypted JSON blob through custom HTTP headers.

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

The Last Watchdog

With so much at stake, it’s a marvel that AD disaster recovery protocol traditionally has been based on a 60-page white paper that needs to be manually followed. pharmaceutical giant Merck; the crippling of its AD tool resulted in suffering drug shortages and losing hundreds of millions of dollars ( latest estimation is 870 million ).