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Phishing Word Documents with Suspicious URL, (Sat, Sep 10th)

Got this word document this week that was quarantined as phishing by Defender (223341099.docx) with the Subject: Urgent Payment Issue. Using Didier malware analysis tools, I ran through the following checks to see what could be embedded in it that is likely suspicious. I first checked the file using oledump.py to see if there were any OLE files in this document.
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Fun stuff: saxophones on the Susquehanna

Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman speaks with Recreation News Publisher Karl Teel about interesting things to do in and near the nation’s capital.
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CISA Director: Tech industry should infuse security at product design stage

Agency director Jen Easterly outlined a push for faster incident reporting and closer industry collaboration.
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New AI system predicts how to prevent wildfires

A machine learning model can evaluate the effectiveness of different management strategies.
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White House developing cyber workforce strategy to be more ‘action oriented’

The White House and the Pentagon are working on new cyber workforce plans to help overcome longstanding recruitment and retention challenges.
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Organizations don’t trust AI enough to forego human-driven decision-making

Fivetran announced the results of a survey which shows that while 87 percent of organizations consider artificial intelligence (AI) vital to their business survival, 86 percent say they would struggle to fully trust AI to make all business decisions without human intervention. 90 percent of respondents report their organizations continue to rely on manual data processes. Conducted by Vanson Bourne, the online survey of 550 senior IT and data science professionals across the U.S., U.K., … More → The post Organizations don’t trust AI enough to forego human-driven decision-making appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Without good data, it’s tough to plan complicated procurements

A recent attempt at a blanket purchase agreement landed the General Services Administration into a protest with Office Depot.
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Pentagon planning new guidance to help contractors squeezed by inflation

Within the next week, DoD hopes to update its policies to allow more vendors hit by inflation to request price increases on their fixed-price contracts.
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Vocus ready for Project Highclere cable lay

Ship loaded and ready.
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Bendigo Bank outage across e-banking

Customers report problems on Wednesday.
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