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Log4j flaw needs immediate remediation

Network World

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.

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Log4j flaw needs immmediate remediation

Network World

After nearly two years of adopting major network and security changes wrought by COVID-19 and hybrid work, weary IT network and security teams didn’t need another big issue to take care of, but they have one: Stemming potential damage from the recently disclosed vulnerability in open source Java-logging Apache Log4j software.

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What Executives Should Know About Shift-Left Security

CIO Business Intelligence

Shift-left security” is the concept that security measures, focus areas, and implications should occur further to the left—or earlier—in the lifecycle than the typical phases that used to be entry points for security testing and protections. How did the term shift-left security originate? This creates risks.

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ChatGPT could make bioterrorism horrifyingly easy

Vox

Over the course of 2001, Rauf used his scientific credentials to make headway toward acquiring anthrax. Existing security measures tend to focus on proscribed lists of dangerous organisms or screening for known threatening genetic sequences. It is not publicly known how far he got; he was arrested that December.

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Lee Harvey Oswald and 9/11

Chief Seattle Greek Blog

September 11, 2001, changed all that. Now we have a National Security Agency which tracks our phone calls and our social media and probably tracks our email and web browsing. Now we have a National Security Agency which tracks our phone calls and our social media and probably tracks our email and web browsing.

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Social networks, intelligence, and homeland security - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

Leading network analyst Valdis Krebs published an interesting analysis of the terrorist networks involved in the tragedy of September 11, 2001. The Interquest platform itself helps integrate disparate data sources to enable effective network analysis.

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Tech Moves: Airbnb HR leader joins Convoy; OutSystems hires Microsoft vets; Highspot’s new chief scientist; and more

GeekWire

OutSystems, founded in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001, and headquartered in Boston, is in the midst of a significant U.S. Lucco spent more than two decades at Microsoft, most recently as the chief architect for the open source Fluid Framework. Mike Doherty. Ziply Fiber Photo). Kirkland, Wash.-based Rich Scott. Rubica Photo).