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Hanks, but no Hanks: Actor turned down Jeff Bezos’ offer to ride Blue Origin rocket because of price tag

GeekWire

The popular actor said he turned down an offer from Jeff Bezos to ride one of the Amazon founder’s Blue Origin rockets to space because it wasn’t going to be a free trip. Actor Tom Hanks, left, shows Jimmy Kimmel what it’s probably like to float in space. YouTube screen grab). ” he asked. ”

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4 Ways North Korea Is Targeting Security Researchers

SecureWorld News

Google's Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has been working for several months to try to identify who is behind an ongoing campaign targeting security researchers, specifically those who work on vulnerability research and development at a variety of organizations. Here is a look at some of the profiles the threat actors have been controlling: 2.

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Arm, Qualcomm Patch Multiple Zero-Days Reported by Google

SecureWorld News

This means that these attack vectors are effectively unknown to the security community, making them extremely valuable to malicious actors. Google's TAG and Project Zero teams identified a new Zero-Day vulnerability, CVE-2023-4211, which was being actively exploited in targeted attacks. Arm also found itself in a similar predicament.

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Rule-Based Programming and the Internet of Things

Phil Windley

Summary: Rule-based, actor model systems are a great match for IoT workloads. Picos are an actor-model programming system. Actors are a good match for IoT programming using rules. Actors keep state information and respond to events (messages) by changing their state, taking action, and possibly raising other events.

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Bad Actor Using New Method to Avert Detection, Google Discovers

SecureWorld News

Whether it is ransomware, other types of malware, or any number of cyberattacks, threat actors keep inventing new techniques to cause disruption. According to Google, this actor began using this method in the summer of 2021. Google recently landed on one of these techniques while tracking hackers in this ongoing game of cat-and-mouse.

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CIOs Have To Treat Social Media With Care

The Accidental Successful CIO

Although we may not think of it, even the smallest details, which malicious actors can aggregate from more than one platform, may be unintentionally revealing. Don’t tag images. They can also search on Twitter for tags like “#LifeAtCompanyX” to get intel on you or your business. The consequences can, of course, be alarming.

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Ingenious Phishing Tactics in the Modern Scammer's Toolbox

SecureWorld News

This way, even if threat actors intercept your sensitive information during the sketchy internet session, it comes in an unintelligible form and they can't possibly weaponize it. The catch was that the document contained a function to transform these gibberish-looking symbols into hexadecimal values that denoted specific JavaScript tags.

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