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IBM Mainframe Skills Council brings the global community together to grow mainframe talent

IBM Big Data Hub

They also found a healthy pipeline of demand for talent, with 91% of the organizations surveyed indicating they anticipate hiring mainframe system administrators or mainframe application developers over the next 1 to 2 years. IBM Z Career Connection Events: These events bring employers and students together.

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Russia-linked hackers actively exploit CVE-2020-4006 VMware flaw, NSA warns

Security Affairs

“This advisory emphasizes the importance for National Security System (NSS), Department of Defense (DoD), and Defense Industrial Base (DIB) system administrators to apply vendor-provided patches to affected VMware® identity management products and provides further details on how to detect and mitigate compromised networks.”

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

These were all obscure open-source components that, over time, became deeply embedded in enterprise systems across the breadth of the Internet, only to have a gaping vulnerability discovered in them late in the game. Its rather mundane function is to record events in a log for a system administrator to review and act upon, later.

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Kimsuky APT poses as journalists and broadcast writers in its attacks

Security Affairs

Threat actors often impersonate real journalists and broadcast writers to appear as a credible front and make inquiries to prominent about political events in the Korean peninsula. “Usually, the questions will revolve around current events and whether U.S. experts believe North Korea will re-join talks with the U.S.,

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China-linked APT BlackTech was spotted hiding in Cisco router firmware

Security Affairs

.” BlackTech threat actors have hidden their activities and obscured changes made to compromised Cisco routers by concealing Embedded Event Manager (EEM) policies. The advisory also includes recommendations for system administrators to prevent the installation of backdoor firmware images and unusual device reboots.

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Deployable architecture on IBM Cloud: Simplifying system deployment

IBM Big Data Hub

Resilience : Deployable architecture is designed to be resilient, with built-in redundancy and failover mechanisms that ensure the system remains available even in the event of a failure or outage. This allows for easier management and reduces the risk of dependencies causing deployment issues.

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Florence, Ala. Hit By Ransomware 12 Days After Being Alerted by KrebsOnSecurity

Krebs on Security

That last effort prompted a gracious return call the following day from a system administrator for the city, who thanked me for the heads up and said he and his colleagues had isolated the computer and Windows network account Hold Security flagged as hacked. ”