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Why Paper Receipts are Money at the Drive-Thru

Krebs on Security

A few years back, I attended a presentation by an investigator with the criminal division of the U.S. Too often, organizations victimized by employee theft shy away from reporting it because they’re worried that any resulting media coverage of the crime will do more harm than good.

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‘Trojan Source’ Bug Threatens the Security of All Code

Krebs on Security

The vulnerability disclosure was coordinated with multiple organizations, some of whom are now releasing updates to address the security weakness. From the paper: “Therefore, by placing Bidi override characters exclusively within comments and strings, we can smuggle them into source code in a manner that most compilers will accept.

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e-Records 2020 Call for Presentations

The Texas Record

TSLAC and DIR are looking for learner-focused presentations designed to engage virtual audiences. Prior experience presenting online is not required. We need virtual presenters! Requested Presentation Formats. A presentation must include 1-2 presenters or 3-4 panelists with a moderator.

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Security Vulnerability of Switzerland’s E-Voting System

Schneier on Security

Like any internet voting system, it has inherent security vulnerabilities: if there are malicious insiders, they can corrupt the vote count; and if thousands of voters’ computers are hacked by malware, the malware can change votes as they are transmitted. Again, the solution is paper. And of course, that’s part of the problem!

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The Essential Guide to Analytic Applications

Embedding dashboards, reports and analytics in your application presents unique opportunities and poses unique challenges. We interviewed 16 experts across business intelligence, UI/UX, security and more to find out what it takes to build an application with analytics at its core.

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News Alert: INE Security enables CISOs to secure board support for cybersecurity training

The Last Watchdog

Cary, NC, May 28, 2024, CyberNewsWire — If there is a single theme circulating among Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) right now, it is the question of how to get stakeholders on board with more robust cybersecurity training protocols. Human error remains one of the leading causes of security breaches.

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Informative preparatory papers on state of frontier AI and potential safety risks for UK AI Safety Summit published

Data Protection Report

An annex “Safety and security risks of Generative Artificial Intelligence to 2025” – this concludes that by 2025 generative AI is more likely to amplify existing safety and security risks than create wholly new ones, but it will increase sharply the speed and scale of some threats and there will almost certainly be unanticipated threats.

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