Monthly Archives: February 2023

Fun stuff: train yourself to celebrate

Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman speaks with Recreation News editor Katherine Peach about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital.
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Crypto Inside a Browser, (Sat, Feb 25th)

I've known the CrypTool website for many years, I use it occasioanly when I need to do some crypto and I only have a browser at my disposal. Lately, I'm more inclined to use CyberChef, as it provides also many non-crypto features.
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Reaching like an octopus: A biology-inspired model opens the door to soft robot control

Octopus arms coordinate nearly infinite degrees of freedom to perform complex movements such as reaching, grasping, fetching, crawling, and swimming. How these animals achieve such a wide range of activities remains a source of mystery, amazement, and inspiration. Part of the challenge comes from the intricate organization and biomechanics of the internal muscles.
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MoBIE enables modern microscopy with massive data sets

High-resolution microscopy techniques, for example electron microscopy or super-resolution microscopy, produce huge amounts of data. The visualization, analysis and dissemination of such large imaging data sets poses significant challenges. Now, these tasks can be carried out using MoBIE, which stands for Multimodal Big Image Data Exploration, a new user-friendly, freely available tool. This means that researchers such as biologists, who rely on high-resolution microscopy techniques, can incorporate multiple data sets to study the processes of life at the very smallest scales.
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Week in review: ChatGPT and cybersecurity, hidden vulnerabilities in Docker containers

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Google Protected Computing: Ensuring privacy and safety of data regardless of location In this Help Net Security interview, Royal Hansen, VP of Engineering for Privacy, Safety, and Security at Google, talks about Protected Computing, the impact of data protection regulations, and privacy in general. Users looking for ChatGPT apps get malware instead The massive popularity of OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has … More → The post Week in review: ChatGPT and cybersecurity, hidden vulnerabilities in Docker containers appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Navy Office of Small Business Programs hits the street to try and increase 8(a) awards

After a year where it fell short of its goals, the Navy Office of Small Business Programs wants companies with 8(a) designations to get more involved in the acquisition process.
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Professionalizing Federal Human Resources

FEDtalk host Jason Briefel sits down with Jenny Mattingley of the Partnership for Public Service and Rob Seidner of EdX to discuss the path forward for professionalizing federal human resources.
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Working Sundays at USPS? Former mail carrier tells SCOTUS that’s against his religion

A former mail carrier is telling the Supreme Court the Postal Service didn’t go far enough to accommodate his religious beliefs when it scheduled him to work Sundays.
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Edgio adds advanced DDoS protection with other WAAP enhancements

Content delivery network (CDN) service provider Edgio has added a new Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) scrubbing ability along with improved Web Application and API Interface (WAAP) to its network security offering. Designed to reduce severe damages from sophisticated DDoS attacks, Edgio’s scrubbing solution impersonates the customer’s network by routing the customer’s IP traffic through its scrubbing point-of-presence (PoP) and only sending the “clean” traffic back to the customer’s infrastructure, according to Richard Yew, senior director, product management for Security at Edgio. To read this article in full, please click here
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Darktrace Newsroom monitors open-source intelligence sources

Darktrace has launched Darktrace Newsroom, an AI-driven system that continuously monitors open-source intelligence sources for new critical vulnerabilities and assesses each organization’s exposure through its in-depth knowledge of their unique external attack surface. Darktrace’s knowledge of “self” means it can assess which assets are potentially affected by the emerging critical vulnerability and can provide mitigation advice specific to the organization so that it stays protected. New critical vulnerabilities, such as Log4J and ProxyLogon, make news … More → The post Darktrace Newsroom monitors open-source intelligence sources appeared first on Help Net Security.
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