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Elliptic raises $60M to enable safe adoption of cryptoassets across financial services

Elliptic raised $60 million in Series C funding. The financing round was led by Evolution Equity Partners, alongside new investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2. Existing investors AlbionVC, Digital Currency Group, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, SBI Group, Octopus Ventures, SignalFire and Paladin Capital Group also participated. The latest fundraise will accelerate Elliptic’s efforts in enabling financial markets participants to embrace the crypto opportunity with trust and confidence. The company serves traditional financial institutions, fintechs, crypto … More → The post Elliptic raises $60M to enable safe adoption of cryptoassets across financial services appeared first on Help Net Security.
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General Ray Odierno: An appreciation

Tough and affable at the same time, and sometimes controversial, Ray Ordierno was a soldier’s soldier
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Microsoft named as a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Full Lifecycle API Management

Today, we are sharing that Microsoft has been named a Leader once again in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management. Microsoft’s API management platform, Azure API Management, helps businesses scale their digital operations and create new revenue opportunities by helping build full lifecycle API programs in a secure and reliable environment.
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7 VPN alternatives for securing remote network access

Once the staple for securing employees working remotely, VPNs were designed to provide secure access to corporate data and systems for a small percentage of a workforce while the majority worked within traditional office confines. The move to mass remote working brought about by COVID-19 in early 2020 changed things dramatically. Since then, it has become the norm for large numbers of employees to regularly work from home, with many only going to the office sporadically (if at all). [ Learn the 5 key tasks to optimize VPNs for security. | Get the latest from CSO by signing up for our newsletters. ] To read this article in full, please click here
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Labor pledges ‘Buy Australian’ plan to boost domestic gov spending

Procurement overhaul would see more spent locally.
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Using Zero Trust To Kill The Employee Password

This report compares authentication methods in use in today’s organizations and offers steps to help S&R pros ditch the password for good and adopt a Zero Trust approach to authentication.
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Sensitive new way of detecting transistor defects

Researchers have devised and tested a new, highly sensitive method of detecting and counting defects in transistors — a matter of urgent concern to the semiconductor industry as it develops new materials for next-generation devices.
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Taking steps toward more effective fitness trackers, more physical activity

As the popularity of fitness trackers has increased, so have the opportunities to use such devices to not only track fitness goals but also increase the motivation to meet those goals. Researchers are using control systems engineering tools to tailor motivational messages sent to individual device users.
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Week in review: Electronic warfare, cybersecurity career plan, Patch Tuesday forecast

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles and interviews: October 2021 Patch Tuesday forecast: Halloween came early this year Halloween is not until the end of the month, but there has already been a lot of scary activity leading up to this patch Tuesday. PrintNightmare and Apple zero-days are just a few that have made the news. Security and trust in software remains top priority for buyers Faster decision making, … More → The post Week in review: Electronic warfare, cybersecurity career plan, Patch Tuesday forecast appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Scanning for Previous Oracle WebLogic Vulnerabilities, (Sat, Oct 9th)

In the past few weeks, I have captured multiple instance of traffic related to some past Oracle vulnerabilities that have already been patched. The first is related to a RCE (CVE-2017-10271) that can be triggered to execute commands remotely by bypassing the CVE-2017-3506 patch's limitations. The POST contains an init.sh script which doesn't appear to be available for download.
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