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Ex-Microsoft engineer gets 9 years in prison after using digital currency scheme to buy $1.6M lakefront home, $160K Tesla

GeekWire

Volodymyr Kvashuk, a 26-year-old software developer and Ukrainian citizen who worked for Microsoft from 2016 to 2018, took advantage of a testing program for Microsoft’s online retail sales platform. Kvashuk used a “bitcoin mixing service” to try and mask the source of the funds he was moving into his bank account.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Vakrangee, a Mumbai-based provider of banking and e-governance services, has appointed Prashanth Thakur as senior vice president and head of technology and digital. Khona has more 17 years of experience across retail, telecommunications, and banking. Yes Bank appoints Mahesh Ramamoorthy as CIO. January 2022.

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Broadcom’s Andy Nallappan on what cloud success really looks like

CIO Business Intelligence

In this interview, Nallappan has much to share on dynamic cloud architecture, cloud cost containment, developing a cloud-conscious culture, and why it makes sense to give engineers financial goals when giving them ownership over their cloud estates. How has your role shifted through that trajectory?

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IT companies join Ukraine war sanctions against Russia

CIO Business Intelligence

The AppStore in Russia continues to run, however, and customers can update their software as before. After sanctions were imposed on Russian banks, Apple announced that it would also discontinue its Apple Pay payment service to comply with legal requirements. Here Google follows the sanctions of the West against Russian banks.

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Hottest tech skills to hire for in 2020

Hacker Earth

Some of the common job roles requiring JavaScript as a skill are: Frontend web development. Full-stack web development. Information security software developers. WordPress developers. PHP and JS developers. Studies reveal that Java is one of the most popular programming languages used by developers.

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Uncovering Vulnerabilities In Cryptographic Libraries: Mayhem, MatrixSSL, And WolfSSL (CVE-2019-13470)

ForAllSecure

Every day these sorts of software are relied upon to secure everything from usernames and passwords to emails to banking information. For example, Mayhem discovered CVE-2016-7053 in OpenSSL, simply by using symbolic execution on the existing harness used by the maintainers and by OSS-fuzz. Fuzzing MatrixSSL.

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UNCOVERING VULNERABILITIES IN CRYPTOGRAPHIC LIBRARIES: MAYHEM, MATRIXSSL, AND WOLFSSL

ForAllSecure

Every day these sorts of software are relied upon to secure everything from usernames and passwords to emails to banking information. For example, Mayhem discovered CVE-2016-7053 in OpenSSL, simply by using symbolic execution on the existing harness used by the maintainers and by OSS-fuzz. Fuzzing MatrixSSL.