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SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

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SecureWorld News

JULY 2, 2020

It was the morning of June 1, 2020, when the IT team at the University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) noticed something was wrong; a cyberattack was underway. The data that was encrypted is important to some of the academic work we pursue as a university serving the public good. Netwalker hackers] "Ok, good.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Let’s agree on one thing: the people who work at your firm are smart people. What Happens Once The Bad Guys Are Inside? Infected computers could become locked and thereby prevent their users from accessing parts of the company’s network. Corporate secrets can be stolen once the bad guys are inside. Or is there?

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Vox

MAY 2, 2023

This was a news outfit once heralded as the future of journalism, and a bona fide threat to the likes of the New York Times. For most people, the villains of BuzzFeed News’s story are the same people we blame for the demise of any digital media publication that had its go-go days between 2010 and 2017 or so.

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 18, 2020

I keep hearing this from people I respect: It’s hard to overstate how serious the SolarWinds hack is. In a situation like this, very few people know the whole story, so read everything — including this story — with a skeptic’s eye. Microsoft also had its own products leveraged to attack victims, said people familiar with the matter.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

This led to many jokes about Tide Pods maybe secretly being candy , and it might have stopped there — but then people actually started eating them. When do you start to take a joke seriously? When does dumb talk cross the line into something dangerous? But “sooner” is still not an answer to when.

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The Accidental Successful CIO

MARCH 21, 2012

Your IT department has lots and lots of data on its computers that bad people would like to get their hands on. Thank goodness your company has taken care to secure every way that there is for outsiders to get into your company’s network. That’s all fine and good until you, the CIO, comes along. Oh, wait a minute.

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The Verge

JUNE 5, 2020

The company’s community standards prohibit “direct attacks” on people based on their race. But the company also published a blog post in 2017 laying out some of the nuances involved in deciding whether a slur is, in fact, an attack, which often depends heavily on context that goes beyond the written word.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. Vamosi: When I was in High School, I seriously wanted to be an astronomer. Often when I talk to people about pentesting, it’s the same problem. Wylie wrote The PenTester BluePrint: Starting A Career As An Ethical Hacker.

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ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

To help more people to become penetration testers, Kim Crawley and Phillip L. Vamosi: When I was in High School, I seriously wanted to be an astronomer. Often when I talk to people about pentesting, it’s the same problem. Wylie wrote The PenTester BluePrint: Starting A Career As An Ethical Hacker.

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The Verge

JULY 15, 2021

In An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination , authors Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang detail the company’s dawning awareness of the foreign adversaries in their midst. Within the threat intel group, there was debate over what should be done. People weren’t happy about that,” recalled the executive. “He

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The Verge

JUNE 10, 2020

Let’s check in with Sarah Perez, writing last week at TechCrunch : A new study on kids’ app usage and habits indicates a major threat to YouTube’s dominance, as kids now split their time between Google’s online video platform and other apps, like TikTok, Netflix and mobile games like Roblox. How well is TikTok doing these days? Virus tracker.

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The Verge

AUGUST 24, 2021

How many people work there? And if so, how’s he going to get people to use it without calling it out in every video? When did you launch the channel and when did it become a full-time gig? And at the time I was writing for Jalopnik , which was like, sort of The Verge tech blog of car blogs, basically.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

The thought had not really occurred to me until last week, when I joined a call with CEO Steve Huffman and his general counsel, Benjamin Lee. But the moderators themselves often become collateral damage, Reddit executives said. “To Photo Illustration by Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images. Back on Monday.

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The Verge

JUNE 24, 2020

But after some threshold — after you’ve reached a billion people, certainly, but also well before then — the same complaint can look strangely like a human rights issue. Maybe there’s a good, principled reason for holding email apps to one standard and video streaming apps to another. Do you have the right to speak?

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Both President Trump and Joe Biden have called for the end of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act , which protects tech companies in most cases when their users post something illegal on their platforms. And so it’s worth spending a few more minutes talking about what smarter people say ought to be done about Section 230.

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Trends in the Living Networks

AUGUST 11, 2022

Njonjo has pioneered research in youth demographics and inequality, including conducting workshops across Kenya to ask young people directly what they feel their future might look like. If we want products and services to meet our growing unmet needs, more women will need to become futurists, design innovators, scientists and inventors.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

Guy Rosen, who oversees these efforts, published a blog post on Wednesday laying out some of the steps the company has taken since 2016 to fight “polarization” — here used in that umbrella-term sense of the word. But it is our job to reduce polarization’s impact on how people experience our products.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 22, 2023

Having a common framework around vulnerabilities, around threats , helps us understand the infosec landscape better. Adam Shostack has a new book, Threats: What Every Engineer Should Learn From Star Wars. that uses both Star Wars and STRIDE to help engineers under vulnerabilities and threats in software development.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

This episode looks at how fuzz testing has evolved over the years, how open source projects have for the most part gone untested over time, and how new efforts to match fuzzing to software development are today helping to discover dangerous new vulnerabilities before they become the next Shellshock. And it's a doozy program.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

This episode looks at how fuzz testing has evolved over the years, how open source projects have for the most part gone untested over time, and how new efforts to match fuzzing to software development are today helping to discover dangerous new vulnerabilities before they become the next Shellshock. And it's a doozy program.

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