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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Every problem is a teachable moment, of course, and we hope these disasters can serve as cautionary tales as you try to navigate your own potential IT troubles in 2024. It turns out the system had been hit by malware , and had gone into a fallback mode in which the lights never turned off.

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Sunburn - A Screw's Loose

A Screw's Loose

And of course, having gone to all that trouble to get rid of the password, most did not enable the simple built-in four-digit PIN; they just left the phone fully unlocked. Debook your database business with Oracle. Worst of all possible worlds! Windows zero day? Demand a refund. Java exploit number one billion and five? Crapplications.

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all? That's funny.

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Decipher Security Podcast With ForAllSecure CEO David Brumley

ForAllSecure

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all? That's funny.

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DECIPHER SECURITY PODCAST WITH FORALLSECURE CEO DAVID BRUMLEY

ForAllSecure

People see what happens after a system has been hacked and someone who's installed malware. Dennis Fischer: I know that you teach an intro to computer security course and also a software security course. In that intro to computer security course, how much do you even get into software security, if at all? That's funny.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. And you have to look through all of that data that you've gathered over the course of the pen test. Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017. And now you got to write reports.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

Unlike other malware, ransom not only infected machines, it encrypted all the data, then asked for a ransom to decrypt them. And you have to look through all of that data that you've gathered over the course of the pen test. Vamosi: WannaCry and NotPetya were ransomware campaigns in 2017. And now you got to write reports.

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