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Security researcher finds a way to run code on Apple, PayPal, and Microsoft’s systems

The Verge

Security researcher Alex Birsan has found a security vulnerability that allowed him to run code on servers owned by Apple, Microsoft, PayPal, and over 30 other companies ( via Bleeping Computer ). For example, I’ve worked on websites that had to convert text files to webpages in real time.

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Security for Big Data Designs: Examining best practices with security architect Eddie Garcia

CTOvision

The breakfast event focused on security for big data designs and featured the highly regarded security architect Eddie Garcia. Eddie Garcia is chief security architect at Cloudera , a leader in enterprise analytic data management. Combined with Cloudera technology, it becomes a secure and powerful enterprise architecture.

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4 Common Causes of False Positives in Software Security Testing

ForAllSecure

In a perfect world, your software testing strategy would surface all of the security risks that exist inside your environment, and nothing more. Sometimes, the security issues that software testing tools flag turn out to be false positives. What Are False Positives in Software Security Testing?

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CIOs Deal With Password Lockout Challenges

The Accidental Successful CIO

Accessing a system should not be a challenge for users Image Credit: Les Orchard One of the things that a CIO has to do is to deal with a long list of complaints from users about how the company’s technology works. In most organizations, the system administrator would be held accountable.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower - Information Technology

Can you provide specific examples of different types of customers, what they need, and what the system will do for them? What’s the state of those systems? What are some examples of similar brands? For example, you might want to offer a discount to a given group to provide incentive. Who are the customers?

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Chances to Speak at O’Reilly Media’s Upcoming Conferences

CTOvision

As we shift to focusing on distributed systems, we’re moving away from web performance talks as part of the Velocity program. And, finally, we are looking for intense 3-hour tutorials that involve hands-on examples, working with other attendees, and frameworks and processes to implement for significant change in your current architecture.

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4 ways upskilling and reskilling can fill hard-to-hire positions

CIO Business Intelligence

For example, when trying to fill your cybersecurity positions, there are several places you can look, depending on the specific role you’re trying to fill: A role to raise security awareness within the organization could be a person in HR specializing in organizational culture, or a marketing person specializing in writing marketing materials.

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