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8 big IT failures of 2023

CIO Business Intelligence

Both United Airlines and Hawaiian Airlines saw service outages in 2023 resulting from wonky software upgrades, and Southwest ended the previous year with a Christmas travel meltdown blamed on outdated systems. Probably the worst IT airline disaster of 2023 came on the government side, however.

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Iranian Cyber Ops Used Facebook to Spy on U.S. Targets

SecureWorld News

Now you can add this one: nation-state cyber actors using the platform to distribute malware and conduct espionage operations. This group used various malicious tactics to identify its targets and infect their devices with malware to enable espionage.". Outsourcing malware development. Privacy violations?

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Iranian Cyber Ops Used Facebook to Spy on U.S. Targets

SecureWorld News

Now you can add this one: nation-state cyber actors using the platform to distribute malware and conduct espionage operations. This group used various malicious tactics to identify its targets and infect their devices with malware to enable espionage.". Outsourcing malware development. Privacy violations?

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CIOs Discover That Dumb Technology Can’t Always Be Upgraded

The Accidental Successful CIO

737 MAX airliners had to grapple with a hybrid of old and new technology , where a complex piece of software controls hydraulic pumps and motors similar to those used when Lyndon Johnson was president. emissions tests by doctoring control software that had been added to diesel-engine designs. Dealing With The Old And The New.

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Top 10 Stories from SecureWorld in 2021

SecureWorld News

along with airlines and truckers, scrambling to find fuel. DOD's First Software Chief Resigns in Frustration. company to transmit malware provided by the conspirators into the company's computer network. The person speaking authored a $1.8 Is this what led to the successful ransomware attack against the company?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. Vamosi: This happens in other industries as well. So anecdote.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: So You Want To Be A Pentester

ForAllSecure

In this episode, though, I’m going to focus on the much more common digital pentesters side, you know, the people who are hired to break into the digital organization, the networks, the software -- and this they can do pretty much anywhere, often without much travel. Vamosi: This happens in other industries as well. So anecdote.

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