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Months after Foreign Service families evacuated parts of the Middle East, uncertainty continues

“I think the administration is constricting the lens by which they’re going to hire people in the future because of their own actions,” said John Dinkelman.
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Months after Foreign Service families evacuated parts of the Middle East, uncertainty continues

“I think the administration is constricting the lens by which they’re going to hire people in the future because of their own actions,” said John Dinkelman.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TV3Lxm

France’s tax authority admits hackers made off with data on 678,000 individuals

France’s tax authority has disclosed a data breach after an attacker accessed the General Directorate of Public Finances (DGFiP) systems, saying the intrusion exposed data on 678,000 individuals and professionals. The incident came to light after an alleged attacker using the alias “ZeroBytes” took credit on a cybercrime forum and listed a stolen database for sale. ZeroBytes said the compromised portal contained data on about 20 million French citizens, but they only managed to extract … More → The post France’s tax authority admits hackers made off with data on 678,000 individuals appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Fortinet expands AI security portfolio with Virtue AI acquisition

Fortinet has acquired Virtue AI, strengthening its broader Security for AI strategy and its vision for securing the agentic enterprise. The acquisition builds on Fortinet’s existing AI security portfolio, which includes the FortiGate Hyperscale Firewall. As organizations deploy AI applications and autonomous agents, their attack surface expands beyond networks, users, endpoints, applications, and cloud workloads. It now includes prompts, models, agents, Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools, application programming interface (API) calls, and AI infrastructure. Organizations … More → The post Fortinet expands AI security portfolio with Virtue AI acquisition appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Apple Screen Sharing Security, (Mon, Aug 17th)

About 20 years ago, with macOS 10.5 (Leopard), Apple introduced screen sharing. Apple did not invent a new protocol for screen sharing. Instead, it used the established VNC protocol. VNC is a pretty simple, unencrypted protocol using TCP port 5900. Historically, the protocol used a simple global password for authentication. Apple adapted the protocol for its own use, but overall, left the VNC protocol itself alone.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TV3DQs

DLA moves its catalog system off a 35-year-old COBOL platform

Adarryl Roberts, DLA’s CIO, said the catalog platform is part of a 10-year IT modernization strategy that implements capabilities in short sprints.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TV3Cdq

DLA moves its catalog system off a 35-year-old COBOL platform

Adarryl Roberts, DLA’s CIO, said the catalog platform is part of a 10-year IT modernization strategy that implements capabilities in short sprints.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TV3Cdp

DLA moves its catalog system off a 35-year-old COBOL platform

Adarryl Roberts, DLA’s CIO, said the catalog platform is part of a 10-year IT modernization strategy that implements capabilities in short sprints.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TV3CdM

The Retirement Promise: What changes, what doesn’t and what actually matters

On this episode of Fed Thread, John Hatton explains how federal retirement changes happen and which threats deserve your attention.
http://news.poseidon-us.com/TV39fJ