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Preserving privacy through advanced encryption techniques

At its core, encryption involves the use of algorithms, mathematical functions that manipulate data into a seemingly random and indecipherable form. This encoded information, referred to as ciphertext, can only be converted back into its original, meaningful state by those possessing the appropriate cryptographic key. However, the world of encryption is not without its challenges. As technology advances, so do the methods of those who seek to bypass its protective layers. In this Help Net … More → The post Preserving privacy through advanced encryption techniques appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Interactive screen use reduces sleep time in kids

While screen time is generally known to affect sleep, new research suggests that interactive engagement, such as texting friends or playing video games, delays and reduces the time spent asleep to a greater extent than passive screen time, like watching television — especially for teens.  
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Cognitive strategies for augmenting the body with a wearable, robotic arm

Scientists show that breathing may be used to control a wearable extra robotic arm in healthy individuals, without hindering control of other parts of the body.
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, December 18th, 2023 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/8782, (Mon, Dec 18th)

(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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Week in review: Apache Struts vulnerability exploit attempt, EOL Sophos firewalls get hotfix

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: SCS 9001 2.0 reveals enhanced controls for global supply chains In this Help Net Security interview, Mike Regan, VP of Business Performance at TIA, discusses SCS 9001 Release 2.0, a certifiable standard crafted to assist organizations in operationalizing the NIST and other government guidelines and frameworks. Balancing AI advantages and risks in cybersecurity strategies In this Help Net Security interview, … More → The post Week in review: Apache Struts vulnerability exploit attempt, EOL Sophos firewalls get hotfix appeared first on Help Net Security.
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2023 Ransomware Trends Report – Asia Pacific and Japan Edition

Ransomware is a problem that everyone has but no one wants to talk about publicly. We asked 250 IT leaders from organizations of all sizes to open up and tell us what it was like to survive a cyber attack.
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An Example of RocketMQ Exploit Scanner, (Sat, Dec 16th)

A few months ago, RocketMQ[1], a real-time message queue platform, suffered of a nasty vulnerability referred as %%cve:2023-33246%%. I found another malicious script in the wild a few weeks ago that exploits this vulnerability. It has still today a very low VirusTotal detection score:2/60 [2] (SHA256:70710c630390dbf74a97162ab61aae78d3e18eacb41e16d3dd6bbd872fee66c5).
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CIO most likely chief to be external hire: report

The trend suggests a desire to bring outside perspectives into the tech suite as digital transformation unfolds, the research firm said.
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Microsoft Releases Phi-2 Small Language Model

Microsoft this week has made available the latest version of its suite of small language models (SLM), Phi-2, in the Azure AI Studio model catalog.
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