The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 28, 2024

To sell us more goods and services, the algorithms of Google, Facebook and Amazon exhaustively parse our digital footprints. Related: The role of ‘attribute based encryption’ There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with companies seeking to better understand their customers. However, over the past 20 years the practice of analyzing user data hasn’t advanced much beyond serving the business models of these tech giants.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2024

Multiple proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits for recently disclosed critical Jenkins vulnerability CVE-2024-23897 have been released. Researchers warn that several proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits targeting the recently disclosed critical Jenkins vulnerability, CVE-2024-23897 , have been made public. Jenkins is the most popular open source automation server, it is maintained by CloudBees and the Jenkins community.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JANUARY 28, 2024

The most rewarding aspect of publishing a book, at least for this author, is when a reader tells you how much a story has affected them. And piecing together the painful circumstances surrounding my brother’s untimely death in 1975 seems to have done that—eliciting more of a heartfelt response than any words I’ve ever written. I composed my memoir to help me heal from the trauma of late-discovery adoption, but I have been overwhelmed learning how that short chapter on my brother has

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2024

Medusa ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the attack against the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA). On January 23, 2023, the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) suffered a ransomware attack. The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) is a public transit agency in metropolitan Kansas City. It operates the Metro Area Express (MAX) bus rapid transit service in Kansas City, Missouri, and 78 local bus routes in seven counties of Missouri and Kansas.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2024

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press. Pro-Ukraine hackers wiped 2 petabytes of data from Russian research center Participants earned more than $1.3M at the Pwn2Own Automotive competition A TrickBot malware developer sentenced to 64 months in prison Russian Midnight Blizzard APT is tar

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