Monthly Archives: March 2023

Lenovo must pay US$138.7 million for InterDigital patents

Costly telecom portfolio.
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UK bans TikTok on government devices over data security fears

Social media app TikTok has been banned on UK government electronic devices, the Cabinet Office has announced. The ban, announced by the chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Oliver Dowden, comes in the wake of a security review into the risks posed to government data by social media apps on devices along with the potential for sensitive information to be accessed and used by some platforms. The move follows other Western countries who have barred the Chinese-owned video app over security concerns and increasing fear that user data from the app (owned by Beijing-based company ByteDance) could end up in the hands of the Chinese government. To read this article in full, please click here
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Virtual patching: Cut time to patch from 250 days to

Unpatched vulnerabilities are responsible for 60% of all data breaches. The Department of Homeland Security has estimated that the proportion of breaches stemming from unpatched flaws may be as high as 85%. Timely patching is an important aspect of managing vulnerabilities but is not always achievable in every circumstance. Indusface’s State of Application Security 2022 report findings show that you could block complex attacks by using “virtual patching” through a WAF. Over 800 million attacks … More → The post Virtual patching: Cut time to patch from 250 days to
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, March 16th, 2023 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=8412, (Thu, Mar 16th)

(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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The truth and three myths about working with a financial advisor

Part of what defines us as Americans is our independent spirit. When a job needs doing, we do it ourselves, owning it as our responsibility to get it done. In many ways this is a positive thing.
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Dutch court finds Facebook misused data

Improperly used personal data of Dutch citizens between 2010 and 2020.
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Federal mediator: VA didn’t bargain ‘in good faith’ with AFGE to update decade-old contract

More than two years into the Biden administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest federal employee union appear no closer to an agreement on a new labor contract.
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Don’t let the CIAM capability gap stifle growth in digital customer experiences

How organisations leverage customer identity and access management.
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Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.
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Researchers develop soft robot that shifts from land to sea with ease

Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjustments. Most robots cannot. But researchers have now created soft robots that can seamlessly shift from walking to swimming, for example, or crawling to rolling using a bistable actuator made of 3D-printed soft rubber containing shape-memory alloy springs that react to electrical currents by contracting, which causes the actuator to bend. The team used this bistable motion to change the actuator or robot’s shape. Once the robot changes shape, it is stable until another electrical charge morphs it back to its previous configuration.
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