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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO Business Intelligence

Deepak Jain, CEO of a Maryland-based IT services firm, has been indicted for fraud and making false statements after allegedly falsifying a Tier 4 data center certification to secure a $10.7 million contract with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). From 2012 through 2018, the SEC paid Company A approximately $10.7

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Startup radar: Early stage tech companies making moves in Seattle

GeekWire

“Our mission is to assist journalists, historians and media professionals in capturing and preserving spoken words authentically and securely,” the company recently posted on LinkedIn. Clearly AI also performs vendor risk assessments and stores security and privacy documentation in one place.

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There’s a better way to protect yourself from hackers and identity thieves

Vox

Authenticator apps like Google Authenticator might seem intimidating, but they’re easy to use and safer than texts. If you’re using texts for two-factor authentication, it’s time to change to an app. When people ask me for security tips, I give them the basics. And you always use two-factor authentication, or 2FA.

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Technology Short Take 176

Scott Lowe

This Tech Short Take is a bit heavy on security-related links, but there’s still some additional content in a number of other areas, so you should be able to find something useful—or at least interesting—in here. Rob McBryde shares his story of reviving a 2012 MacBook Pro with Linux. Thanks for reading!

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Microsoft issues fixes for non-supported versions of Windows Server

Network World

Microsoft took the rare step of issuing security fixes for both the server and desktop versions of Windows that are long out of support, so you know this is serious. CVE-2019-0708 is pre-authentication and requires no user interaction, meaning any future malware could self-propagate from one vulnerable machine to another.

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Security attacks and countermeasures

Cloud Musings

Johnson Cyber security is rapidly becoming a significant issue in the C-suite as well as the population at large. The results of Dell’s Global Technology Adoption Index(GTAI) [1] show that security is a top concern for most of the 2000 global small and medium businesses surveyed. by Sandra K. For example, recent breaches include 3.65

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CIOs must address IT’s perceived value problem

CIO Business Intelligence

In a perfect world, enterprise IT should be funded at levels that enable existing operations to function outage– and security incident–free with a smattering of investments in a manageable portfolio of competitive advantage–producing innovation initiatives. Is this too much to ask? Vince Kellen, Ph.D., Quarterly statements are not sufficient.”

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