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Microsoft Accidentally Exposes 38TB of Sensitive Data

SecureWorld News

The incident, which began in July 2020 and remained undetected for almost three years, originated from Microsoft's attempt to share open-source code and AI models for image recognition via a GitHub repository.

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Microsoft data leak: Microsoft’s 38TB time bomb ticks after 3 years

Dataconomy

The unveiling of the accidental Microsoft data leak The saga began in July 2020 when the Microsoft AI research division embarked on a mission to contribute open-source AI learning models to a public GitHub repository.

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5 Ransomware Attacks Targeting Food and Agriculture

SecureWorld News

The company did not pay the $40 million ransom and was able to successfully restore their systems from backups.". "In The company took its systems offline to prevent the further spread of malware, directly impacting employees who were unable to access specific systems, according to open source reports.". "In

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How to switch an old Windows laptop to Linux

The Verge

By the federal government’s Digital Analytics Program (DAP) count in October 2020, 3.2 For all your other desktop software needs, there’s usually a free, open-source program that can do just as good a job. Like any serious upgrade, start with making a complete backup of your Windows system. Photo: Linux Mint.

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Ten Reasons to Use Picos for Your Next Decentralized Programming Project

Phil Windley

Picos are hosted on the open-source pico engine. Copies would be eventually consistent with one another and no backups would be needed. If you're intrigued by the pico engine, the pico engine is an open source project licensed under a liberal MIT license. Picos use a substitutable hosting model.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software. Vamosi: So, open source software and more testing. Does moving to open source make sense? You know, should commercial companies be open sourcing things?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Voting Systems

ForAllSecure

Clearly having individual vendors provide the security wasn’t working, so the state moved toward adopting open source software. Vamosi: So, open source software and more testing. Does moving to open source make sense? You know, should commercial companies be open sourcing things?

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