The Verge

OCTOBER 5, 2021

at the door, so please get in touch if you have to turn Secure Boot on to get your free ice cream. Windows 11 is available on new devices today or for eligible existing hardware. Microsoft is taking a gradual approach to rolling out this new operating system, but it’s available as a free upgrade for eligible Windows 10 devices.

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The Verge

JUNE 29, 2021

Microsoft’s big security push is complicated Microsoft has had six years to prepare for the launch of Windows 11, but the company is still struggling to explain its new hardware requirements. Coupled with Microsoft’s hardware requirements is a push to enable a more modern BIOS (UEFI) that supports features like Secure Boot and TPM 2.0

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Kitaboo

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

These may include their contact information, academic and health records, financial information, social security numbers, etc. Unfortunately, the education sector cannot completely eliminate cyber security threats. However, there are certain steps institutes can take to mitigate them: Have a Strong Security Policy.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 15, 2021

Welcome to Technology Short Take #136, the first Short Take of 2021! The content this time around seems to be a bit more security-focused, but I’ve still managed to include a few links in other areas. Servers/Hardware. Want to enable logging in every AWS service that exists (as of 2021)? Networking. Compute safely.

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Scott Lowe

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Servers/Hardware I must admit that I always wanted to have a Sun workstation, and I’ve had an interest in SunOS/Solaris for years (check out this link if you don’t believe me). Security Michael Tsai weighs in on the Microsoft signing key that was stolen, sharing several links with commentary on this matter.

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 31, 2021

This is the last Technology Short Take of 2021, so hopefully I’ll close the year out “with a bang” with this collection of links and articles on various technology areas. Servers/Hardware. Aqua Security has a write-up on some of their analysis here. Operating Systems/Applications. Networking.

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The Verge

JULY 27, 2021

Microsoft posted the fourth quarter of its fiscal 2021 financial results today , reporting revenue of $46.2 Windows 11 is a visual overhaul to the operating system, with a new Start menu, updated design, and an overall simplification of Windows. Hardware revenue is up again, as expected, by 172 percent.

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Scott Lowe

JANUARY 21, 2022

Aidan Steele examines how VPC sharing could potentially improve security and reduce cost. Servers/Hardware. Orca Security discusses the “Superglue” vulnerability in AWS Glue. Sander Rodenhuis wrote an article on security policies in Kubernetes. Operating Systems/Applications.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 27, 2022

Servers/Hardware. Researchers have uncovered a potential security flaw in Apple Silicon CPUs; more details in this 9to5Mac article. I’m not sure how I feel about security researchers calling this flaw “not that bad.” Operating Systems/Applications. Programming. Virtualization.

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Scott Lowe

MAY 7, 2021

It’s hard to believe it’s already the start of May 2021—my how time flies! Servers/Hardware. This post by “xssfox” takes an interesting (to me) look at a security hole created through the use of an automated code pipeline deploying to a production website. maximizing revenue per hardware instance).

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s time to evolve beyond the UNIX operating system. So while I was editing this podcast on self-healing operating systems, I was reminded of an article that I never finished for Fobes.com. He died prematurely on April 23 in 2021. Music] VAMOSI: What is an operating system?

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Your phone’s front camera is always securely looking for your face, even if you don’t touch it or raise to wake it.” The company is also spinning it as making your phone more secure by automatically locking the phone when it no longer sees your face or detects someone looking over your shoulder and snooping on your group chat.

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Scott Lowe

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Servers/Hardware. William Lam takes a look at some potentially interesting homelab hardware. If you aren’t paying attention to the security of your CI/CD pipelines, you probably should. If you aren’t paying attention to the security of your CI/CD pipelines, you probably should. (Seriously.).

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Scott Lowe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Servers/Hardware. Kay Singh collects some user comments on the new M1-powered Apple hardware. SilentKnight is a set of security tools/checks for macOS. This list of best practices for securing OpenSSH systems may be useful. Operating Systems/Applications. Lots of geekery in here!

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Kitaboo

MAY 24, 2023

In 2021, the total loss of sales due to illegal downloading of ebooks was USD 315,000,000. Key Features of DRM Systems DRM systems incorporate various features to ensure content protection: Encryption: DRM employs encryption techniques to secure the content and prevent unauthorized access.

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Kitaboo

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In 2021, the total loss of sales due to the illegal downloading of eBooks was USD 315,000,000. This encryption technique secures content and prevents unauthorized access. Access Control: DRM systems control user access based on licensing agreements and digital rights associated with the content. What Is the Future of DRM?

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 6, 2024

Organisations are wrestling to disentangle work from a physical location as they adjust to flexible work models, and one of the biggest challenges has been dealing with endpoint security. Securing endpoint devices is often considered secondary to identity management, data security, and software hacking. Remote Work, Security

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Kitaboo

MARCH 10, 2023

This gave rise to the need for a different kind of digital security to protect online content. Basically, with DRM, publishers can control their data, software and hardware. However, platforms like KITABOO can give readers access to content on multiple devices across operating systems.

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Scott Lowe

AUGUST 2, 2019

Servers/Hardware. spec , expected in to land in 2021. Operating Systems/Applications. David Holder talks briefly about application security with mutual TLS (mTLS) via Istio. David Holder talks briefly about application security with mutual TLS (mTLS) via Istio. Interested in running Hashcat on AWS EC2?

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 22, 2021

It seems everything smart is hackable, with IoT startups sometimes repeating security mistakes first made decades ago. How then does one start securing it? Welcome to the hacker by original podcast from for all secure, it's about challenging our expectations about the people who hack for a living.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Jonathan Knudsen from Synopsys joins The Hacker Mind to discuss his presentation at SecTor 2021 on fuzzing message brokers such as RabbitMQ and VerneMQ, both written in Erlang, demonstrating that any type of software in any environment can still be vulnerable. Knudsen: My name is Jonathan Knutson, and I am a security researcher at synopsis.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Yet the company needed top hardware engineers to devote themselves to the project. He joined Microsoft in 2004, working on hardware projects in the company’s Entertainment & Devices Division before he was recruited to the nascent Surface team. Windows revenue fell 13% to $24.7 A shot in the arm for Alexa?

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 28, 2022

Introduced in September 2021 as a part of HPE GreenLake for data protection, HPE Backup and Recovery Service is designed to deliver five key benefits to hybrid cloud environments: Cloud simplicity. No modern data security solution is complete without ransomware protection. Ransomware can’t infect and encrypt what it cannot access.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 26, 2022

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences.

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The Verge

JANUARY 20, 2021

It is even weirder to own a Zune in 2021 — let alone 16 of them. Woods picked up his Zune foraging habit during the pandemic, while he was furloughed from his job working security at Best Buy. “I If you talk to them, they’ll tell you that these MP3 players are the best pieces of hardware to ever run a Windows operating system.

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ForAllSecure

AUGUST 26, 2021

At Black Hat USA 2021, researchers presented how they used their own fuzzer designed for hypervisors to find a critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure. It's the software that emulates a physical computer virtually to run programs operating systems stored data connected networks and do other typical computing functions.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Vamosi: In the summer of 2021, the Colonial Pipeline in the US. I am a global security adviser at Splunk. And I work on a team called surge which is primarily a research group focused on security. There's a reason we're doing this to make the security community better so products will get better.

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Vox

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

While Meta is still in the early stages of developing the futuristic hardware and software that will make this possible, the company is already a market leader. Meta’s VR headsets made up an estimated 75 percent of all AR/VR headset shipments in the first quarter of 2021. Liu Guanguan/China News Service via Getty Images.

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ForAllSecure

JULY 6, 2022

I’m talking about cybercrime unicorns, talking the fog of cyberwar among nation states, and about a new book that I think will be on the shelves of every information security professional later this summer. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general. It’s not.

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Dataconomy

JULY 18, 2023

And once the OpenAI team resolves an ongoing paywall issue, ChatGPT Plus is set to offer Bing web access — a stark contrast to the free version of ChatGPT, which only contains data up until 2021. Integration with Bing Given its training data, ChatGPT’s knowledge base only extends up until September 2021.

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The Verge

JUNE 21, 2020

Chaim Gartenberg has posted our long list of features you should expect to come to Apple’s operating systems this year. I will brook no arguments that somehow this would be a security nightmare for Apple: Signal handles it just fine. Microsoft to upgrade its xCloud servers to Xbox Series X hardware in 2021.

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