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GitHub Discovers Authentication Issue

SecureWorld News

GitHub announced a security update due to a bug causing issues with the authentication of sessions. On March 2, GitHub received an external report of anomalous behavior for their authenticated GitHub.com user session. This would give them the valid and authenticated session cookie for another user. How did GitHub fix the issue?

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Zero Trust

Phil Windley

My new book Learning Digital Identity from O'Reilly Media covers many of the topics in this post such as multi-factor authentication, authorization and access control, and identity policy development in depth. User Authentication: Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Requiring users to provide multiple forms of verification (e.g.,

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Trusted Cyber Collaboration Workshop: A gathering of the leaders in secure collaboration and cyber security 24-26 Sep in DC

CTOvision

The event is focused on secure collaboration among industry partners and their supply chain members, mitigating the risks of information security breaches, and accelerating secure information sharing while reducing overall program costs. TSCP member companies are the leaders in large-scale, international collaborative programs.

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What is Competency-Based Assessment?

Kitaboo

These platforms also facilitate real-time feedback, personalized learning pathways, and comprehensive data analysis. Authentic tasks encourage them to become involved in reflecting on their learning. After this, teachers provide authentic assessments for learners to evaluate their progress along the way.

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2014 Trusted Cyber Collaboration Workshop: 24-26 Sep in Crystal City VA

CTOvision

TSCP’s Trusted Cyber Collaboration Workshop is an opportunity for professional information sharing focused on secure collaboration among industry partners and their supply chain members, mitigating the risks of information security breaches, and accelerating secure information sharing while reducing overall program costs.

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DARPA offers $42 million for ‘revolutionary’ research on social media analysis

Trends in the Living Networks

The general goal of the Social Media in Strategic Communication (SMISC) program is to develop a new science of social networks built on an emerging technology base. It would be useful to know, for instance, whether signs of widespread rebellion were authentic or whether they were being created by a fringe group with little real support.

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Essential data science tools for elevating your analytics operations

CIO Business Intelligence

Enterprises now integrate mathematical analysis into their business reporting and build dashboards to generate smart visualizations to quickly understand what’s going on. Analysis that was once an annual or quarterly job is now running in real time. They need a home base where the data is stored and the analysis is computed.

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