SecureWorld News

AUGUST 4, 2020

And it's a malware strain used specifically by the Chinese government. Chinese government actors are using malware variants in conjunction with proxy servers to maintain a presence on victim networks and to further network exploitation. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. CISA reports on Chinese malware strain.

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 25, 2013

Consolidation » Government. Government IT Facilities Rises to 7,000. Government IT Facilities Rises to 7,000. government wants its servers to come out of the closets. ” In a sense, the number has been growing along with the government’s ambitions. Number of U.S. Number of U.S.

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Vox

MAY 20, 2022

“This lack of competition in digital advertising means that monopoly rents are being imposed upon every website that is ad-supported and every company — small, medium, or large — that relies on internet advertising to grow its business,” Sen. State and federal governments have filed four antitrust cases, all within a year of each other.

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Vox

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Oh, nothing much — just the future of the internet. The outcomes of these cases, starting with this one, will tell us if our antitrust laws, written decades before the internet existed and tried before an increasingly business-friendly justice system, can be applied to dominant digital platforms’ business practices now. “If

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SecureWorld News

MAY 7, 2024

According to a new joint cybersecurity alert , the hacktivists have been observed gaining remote access to small-scale industrial control systems used in water/wastewater, dams, energy, and food and agriculture by exploiting internet-exposed human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and using default or weak passwords.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 4, 2016

Noblis CEO Amr ElSawy to Keynote 2016 CES Government Conference. India deserves better than Mark Zuckerberg's watered-down Internet - Washington Post. Emails: US Government Facilitated LNG Business Deals Before Terminals Got. Quinn: Google is becoming US K-12 schools' operating system - San Jose Mercury News.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This shows that many modern cyber security challenges are network-agnostic, which means the most popular cyber attack methods typically don’t focus on the network technology the company uses to access the internet. The need for improved rural internet service has been recognized by both governments and businesses alike.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Facebook has pledged to restrict the widespread distribution of content from Myanmar’s military regime following a successful coup that toppled the democratically elected government on Feb. The pledge comes from a new blog post at Facebook’s website that seems to implicitly acknowledge the potential for… Read more.

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Vox

JANUARY 26, 2023

Google, for example, started out as a nimble, innovative upstart and eventually bested Microsoft in browsers, email, and mobile operating systems. Its main revenue source is the digital ads that consumers see as they navigate the internet, and the majority of them are using Google services while they do it.

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Kitaboo

MAY 21, 2024

With the evolution of digital textbook platforms like KITABOO , students can access their learning materials anytime, anywhere, using any device with internet connectivity. This includes addressing issues such as internet connectivity, device availability, and digital literacy skills.

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Phil Windley

MARCH 29, 2022

To review briefly, certificate authorities are key players in public key infrastructure (PKI) and are an example of a core internet service that is distributed and hierarchical. Root certificates are held in browsers or operating systems. If the root certificate isn't known to the system, then it's not trusted.

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Dataconomy

JUNE 14, 2023

With the advent of the internet and technological advancements, the ease of sharing and accessing digital content has created an environment where digital piracy thrives, leading to detrimental consequences for content creators, copyright holders, and the overall economy.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

At its core, this tactic revolves around gaming the trust users put in reputable internet services, including search engines, and the familiarity they have with online advertising per se. However, the agency immediately noted that such tools require high levels of privilege to operate, which potentially allows them to amass sensitive data.

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TM Forum

JANUARY 31, 2022

The demands for greater planning and faster reaction to public safety events are being driven by governments and organizations like the European Emergency Number Association (EENA). In the modern and fast-moving world, governments need to plan for public safety events (disasters, terrorism, pandemics, etc.) The impact of 5G and IoT.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 21, 2022

Most recently, Russian threat actors have taken aim at a large software development company in Ukraine that is utilized by various government agencies within the country, according to a report from Cisco Talos. Agents can be deployed on a variety of operating systems (OS) or architectures (amd64, arm, etc.).

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. CISA refers to any malicious cyber activity from the North Korean government as Hidden Cobra.

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Vox

AUGUST 3, 2020

Some rational people think it’s a good idea : They don’t want the popular social video app with a huge presence in the US to be controlled by a Chinese company because Chinese companies are, in various ways, extensions of the Chinese government. Trump, of course, says all kinds of things, all the time. Many of those things are not true.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Cloud Technology in simple words is nothing but paying for the online services and resources used the by the customer over the Internet. It provides various facilities over the Internet that are used efficiently by the users. Many government organizations and 95% of fortune 500 companies run on Microsoft Azure cloud.

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Gizmodo

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Just as the government called for civilian volunteers to fight against the invasion, it was now seeking volunteer hackers to launch cyber attacks against Russian businesses, banks, and government… Read more. Faced with a powerful Russian army at its doorstep, Ukraine once again affirmed that it would not go down without a fight.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

“WhatsApp is the first global messaging service at this scale to offer end-to-end encrypted messaging and backups, and getting there was a really hard technical challenge that required an entirely new framework for key storage and cloud storage across operating systems,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a statement.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 23, 2021

The increased connectivity brought on by the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) allows for more real-time monitoring and adjustment of power, but with those benefits also comes greater risk. Safety and efficiency goals of the grid conflict with the goal of security in the design and operation of the systems.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The futuristic tech Mark Zuckerberg is investing billions in could remake the internet. It’s the metaverse — defined most simply as a virtual world where people can socialize, work, and play — and Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes it is the future of the internet and of his trillion-dollar company. It’s a joke.

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Vox

JANUARY 27, 2022

Microsoft knows better than anyone what the consequences of going up against the government are: Twenty years ago, a protracted antitrust lawsuit from the DOJ almost broke up the company. But the very next year, Microsoft began bundling its new Internet Explorer browser with Windows 95. This conspicuous merger threatens to upend that.

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Cloud Musings

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

This transition makes interoperability the difference between the success and failure of IT deployments, especially in the Federal government. Recent government IT failures like the healthcare portal roll out highlight this critical difference. Sources: [link] [link] [link] [link] / ? Grab this Headline Animator ( Thank you.

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Gizmodo

AUGUST 9, 2021

After facing a whole lot of criticism, Apple has doubled down and defended its plans to launch controversial new tools aimed at identifying and reporting child sex abuse material (or CSAM) on its platforms. Read more.

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Dataconomy

MAY 19, 2023

Desktop as a Service is a cloud computing model that delivers virtual desktop environments to end-users over the internet. It provides a complete desktop experience, including the operating system, applications, and data, all hosted and managed in the cloud.

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Gizmodo

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Good to keep in mind if you don’t want to risk law enforcement or foreign governments or your boss or tech companies sifting through your stuff. Great news for secret tribunals and activists and employees rising up: Signal now enables 40-person encrypted video calls. Read more.

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Gizmodo

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The Russian government has told 13 mostly U.S.-based based tech firms that they need to set up local offices in Russia by next year or maybe just get the hell out, according to Reuters. Read more.

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Phil Windley

DECEMBER 16, 2022

This figure shows the relationship between an agent, a wallet, and the underlying operating system. Key management is performed in cooperation with the operating system and underlying hardware. The DIDComm protocol is governed by the DIDComm specification , hosted at the Decentralized Identity Foundation.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 7, 2022

United States government agencies recently released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) providing information on how North Korean state-sponsored threat actors are actively using Maui ransomware to attack healthcare organizations. The advisory reminds organizations that the U.S. What is Maui ransomware? Mitigations for Maui ransomware.

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Vox

APRIL 16, 2020

Apple and Google are a month away from launching a series of updates to their smartphone operating systems that will use Bluetooth signals to track potential coronavirus cases. That it involved changes to mobile operating systems actually made it seem more likely that it would be a permanent fixture.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 25, 2020

Center for Internet and Society: bill is worst case encryption assault. Leaders at the Center for Internet and Society , at Stanford University, call this a "Full frontal nuclear assault on encryption in the United States.". On one side, there is the U.S. On the other side are cybersecurity thought leaders, like Bruce Schneier.

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Vox

AUGUST 11, 2020

The US government worries the app could be used not only to surveil US users but to censor political speech and spread misinformation that could hurt democracy in the US. Many of TikTok’s users and creators haven’t been deterred by government warnings. As a civilian, I’m not concerned about it all,” Watts told Recode.

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Vox

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The Department of Justice is accusing Google of using its monopoly over internet search to freeze out its competitors — real or potential. In the meantime, here’s what we learned in the landmark trial, the result of which may change your internet experience. We’ll find out what a judge thinks in a few months. Google paid $26.3

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2021

Long before the Apple iOS and Android operating systems came to dominate the smartphone market, the early days of the mobile phone era were pioneered by Nordic telecom companies. The Finnish government stood behind the development of a robust telecom sector that has become one of the country’s leading exports.

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Galido

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The victims could be big companies, small agencies, governments, or even individual users. For achieving the set goal, a malware program must execute without being noticed or deleted, or without shutting down the targeted system. A common way for a malware program to attack is to find and exploit the system’s vulnerabilities.

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Vox

AUGUST 26, 2020

Sometime next month, iPhone users will start seeing a new question when they use many of the apps on their devices: Do they want the app to follow them around the internet, tracking their behavior? Apple is trying to single-handedly change the way internet advertising works. And it affects you, the person reading this story.

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