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SailPoint acquires SecZetta to help companies validate non-employee identities

With nearly half of today’s enterprises comprised of non-employees, organizations need to factor this growing group of identities into their approach to identity security. With SecZetta, SailPoint will be able to expand its capabilities to help companies gain better visibility into all types of identities, across both employee and non-employee identities – from third-party contractors to temporary workers – all from a single, market-leading identity security platform. This acquisition will give enterprises the centralized approach … More → The post SailPoint acquires SecZetta to help companies validate non-employee identities appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Top federal use cases for the Metaverse continuum

The past year has seen countless headlines about how tech and retail behemoths are making enormous investments in the metaverse.
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Computers that power self-driving cars could be a huge driver of global carbon emissions

A new model quantifies emissions that will be generated by computers on fully autonomous vehicles. If self-driving cars are widely adopted, their emissions will rival those generated by all the data centers in the world today. Keeping emissions at or below those levels would require hardware efficiency to improve more rapidly than its current pace.
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Novel design helps develop powerful microbatteries

Translating electrochemical performance of large format batteries to microscale power sources has been a long-standing technological challenge, limiting the ability of batteries to power microdevices, microrobots and implantable medical devices. Researchers have created a high-voltage microbattery (> 9 V), with high-energy and -power density, unparalleled by any existing battery design.
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Royal ransomware group actively exploiting Citrix vulnerability

The Royal ransomware group is believed to be actively exploiting a critical security flaw affecting Citrix systems, according to the cyber research team at cyber insurance provider At-Bay. Announced by Citrix on November 8, 2022, the vulnerability, identified as CVE-2022-27510, allows for the potential bypass of authentication measures on two Citrix products: the Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Gateway. To read this article in full, please click here
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Microsoft Releasing New Microsoft 365 Basic Product and Apps This Month

Microsoft this week announced Microsoft 365 product news, including a new consumer Basic product offering.
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The GSA administrator on the agency’s plans for the President’s management agenda in 2023

The General Services Administration has been busy since passage of the American Rescue Plan two years ago and, most recently, the Inflation Reduction Act. GSA is applying funds to fulfill several parts of the President’s Management Agenda.
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Multicloud Data Protection Mitigates Risk for DevOps Teams

Critical cloud development data could be an unintended casualty in the unbridled rush to get new application services to market.
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BrandPost: The Unrelenting Rise of Botnet Threats

As the world has moved to scalable online services for everything from video streaming to gaming to messaging, it’s really no surprise that malware has followed close behind. Specifically, threats such as botnets are evolving and scaling at such speeds that it’s more important than ever to proactively manage potential security threats.  Botnets, a portmanteau or blend of the phrase robot networks, are collections of malware-infected computing resources that can be used to attack any connected target system. They’re a growing risk for every organization, enabling cyber criminals to steal passwords and gain access to corporate systems, deploy disruptive attacks that shut down entire network, or even hijack corporate data with ransomware. To read this article in full, please click here
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Cisco won’t fix router flaws even though PoC exploit is available (CVE-2023-20025, CVE-2023-20026)

Cisco has acknowledged one critical (CVE-2023-20025) and two medium-severity (CVE-2023-20026, CVE-2023-20045) vulnerabilities affecting some of its Small Business series of routers, but won’t be fixing them as the devices “have entered the end-of-life process.” Proof-of-concept exploit code for CVE-2023-20025 and CVE-2023-20026 is available online, but there is currently no indication of any of these flaws being exploited by attackers. About the vulnerabilities CVE-2023-20025 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco … More → The post Cisco won’t fix router flaws even though PoC exploit is available (CVE-2023-20025, CVE-2023-20026) appeared first on Help Net Security.
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