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White House instructs government agencies to beef up cybersecurity, adopt ‘zero trust’ in new memo

The Verge

The strategy outlines the administration’s vision for moving government agencies towards a “zero trust” architecture — a cybersecurity model where users and devices are only given permissions to access network resources necessary for the task at hand and are authenticated on a case-by-case basis.

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How effective data backup strategies can combat cyber threats?

Dataconomy

Backing up data involves making duplicates of information to safeguard it from loss or harm, encompassing various forms like documents, images, audio files, videos, and databases. Whether hardware or software failures, backups facilitate data recovery from non-malicious disruptions such as file corruption or system breakdowns.

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Why former Microsoft exec Steven Sinofsky has been using PCs from the 1980s again

GeekWire

Some of the vintage hardware used by Steven Sinofsky to help refresh his memory of the early PC era while researching his new book (with help from his cat, Zozo, on the keyboard). But the hardware and software were just the start of his tech forensics. The machine on the left is a rare IBM PC XT/3270. Photo courtesy Steven Sinofsky).

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Document Security is More than Just Password-Protection

CIO Business Intelligence

Thirty years ago, Adobe created the Portable Document Format (PDF) to facilitate sharing documents across different software applications while maintaining text and image formatting. Today, PDF is considered the de facto industry standard for documents that contain critical and sensitive business information.

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CEO Trafficked $1 Billion in Counterfeit Cisco Products

SecureWorld News

The DOJ explains: "As alleged, the Chinese counterfeiters often added pirated Cisco software and unauthorized, low-quality, or unreliable components – including components to circumvent technological measures added by Cisco to the software to check for software license compliance and to authenticate the hardware.

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Broadcom’s Approach Towards Delivering Customer Value

CIO Business Intelligence

We’ve enabled customers to leverage unprecedented productivity and connectivity because, in hardware, we’ve pioneered seven generations of Wi-Fi products over the last two decades and increased Wi-Fi speeds by 100 times since our first smartphone chip.

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Top 10 Commonly Exploited Initial Attack Vectors

SecureWorld News

Multifactor authentication (MFA) is not enforced. Many software and hardware products come "out of the box" with overly permissive factory default configurations intended to make the products user-friendly and reduce the troubleshooting time for customer service. This is one of the most commonly found poor security practices.

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