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Microsoft did door-to-door router replacements to stop Trickbot malware

The Verge

The Daily Beast reported the detail in an article about the group, which is an ongoing target for US Cyber Command as well as information security companies like Microsoft. Trickbot is known to hijack routers and internet of things devices that are often easy to infect without owners realizing it.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

Prior to joining Fractal, Tiwari was senior vice-president and global CISO at Airtel, where he set up the managed security services initiative Airtel Secure for Business. Before that, he was the chief information security advisor at Microsoft India. . New CIO appointments in India, 2020. November 2020.

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Tech Moves: Expedia board director Skip Battle resigns; Madrona promotions; Vacasa’s new CFO

GeekWire

AskJeeves was acquired in 2005 by IAC, the internet media company run by Barry Diller, who is also chairman of Seattle-based Expedia Group. billion for first nine months of 2020, down from $9.3 Sedlock was most recently chief growth officer at EPSi and spent more than a decade at Mediware Information Systems. billion in 2019.

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Fed Tech News Roundup 8 July 2015

CTOvision

Information Security: Cyber Threats and Data Breaches Illustrate Need for Stronger Controls across Federal Agencies, July 08, 2015 GAO Info Security (Today) - What GAO FoundFederal systems face an evolving array of cyber-based threats. Some are already.

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Global Supply Chain Cyberattack Underway via IT Monitoring Software

SecureWorld News

released between March 2020 and June 2020. Brandon Hoffman, Chief Information Security Officer at security firm Netenrich doubts this is the case: “It’s natural to think that just after the FireEye breach, adversaries turned their tools to use and perpetrated this breach of the Commerce department.

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The anatomy of a Facebook account heist

Vox

Jane Lee, who worked at Facebook on the trust and safety team in 2020, told Vox she saw similar cases out of Southeast Asia during her time at the company. The situation has proved taxing for internet users like Amanda Clothier, an Oklahoma resident and military wife of 25 years.

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7 technologies that CIOs can’t ignore in 2021

mrc's Cup of Joe Blog

As mentioned in this article , cloud adoption spiked in 2020–driven largely by the pandemic. One way to prepare: Secure portals. A portal lets employees access all their necessary information, securely via a web application. Remote work: With fast internet access from anywhere, remote work will continue to grow.

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