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CommScope Sensitive Employee Data Breached in Ransomware Incident

SecureWorld News

Hackers from the Vice Society ransomware operation managed to access CommScope's network and exfiltrate data backups from the company's intranet and customer portal. The trove of data was discovered April 14th on the Dark Web leak site of Vice Society, available for sale, an indication that ransom demands may not have been met by CommScope.

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Wells Fargo’s CIO Drops The Ball

The Accidental Successful CIO

If you were the CIO of a major bank responsible for the importance of information technology, what do you think that your #1 job responsibility would be? If you are guessing “keep the bank’s systems secure” then good news, you’d be close, but you’d still be missing the point. Not a good scenario.

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The chaotic and cinematic MGM casino hack, explained

Vox

Scattered Spider specializes in social engineering , where attackers manipulate victims into performing certain actions by impersonating people or organizations the victim has a relationship with. This was the backup plan; the group initially planned to hack the company’s slot machines but weren’t able to, the representative claimed.

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Cruise is using food bank deliveries as cover to run tests?that may violate stay-home orders, drivers say

The Verge

Cruise’s self-driving cars are back on the road in San Francisco, but the company may be skirting the city’s shelter-in-place rules in its rush to get there, some of the company’s backup drivers say. Another Cruise employee said in mid-May that only one facility, located 1201 Bryant Street, was deploying vehicles for the food bank deliveries.

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Common workplace security breaches and how to prevent them

Dataconomy

An overarching strategy to deal with cyber threats, security vulnerabilities, and human error is necessary to remediate the situation: Router security and regular backups – sensible practice It’s not necessary for criminals to be physically present at your workplace with them to wreak havoc on your systems.

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Waymo and Cruise dominated autonomous testing in California in the first year of the pandemic

The Verge

Both companies briefly grounded their vehicles in the early months of the pandemic, but Cruise was back on the road by late April, using deliveries to local food banks as a pretext. This was a worrisome decision for many of the companies’ backup drivers. Some backup drivers were glad to be back at work.

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3 ways to advance sustainability in high performance computing

CIO Business Intelligence

The result s include 18X faster data backups, 72% less power, and a reduction of 60 tons of CO 2 per year. When it came time to update its infrastructure, BNP Paribas, a leading bank in the European Union, turned to atNorth and Dell Technologies to help it expand responsibly and build a “future-proofed” HPC infrastructure.

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