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Federal mediator: VA didn’t bargain ‘in good faith’ with AFGE to update decade-old contract

More than two years into the Biden administration, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the largest federal employee union appear no closer to an agreement on a new labor contract.
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Don’t let the CIAM capability gap stifle growth in digital customer experiences

How organisations leverage customer identity and access management.
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Two U.S. Men Charged in 2022 Hacking of DEA Portal

Two U.S. men have been charged with hacking into a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) online portal that taps into 16 different federal law enforcement databases. Both are alleged to be part of a larger criminal organization that specializes in using fake emergency data requests from compromised police and government email accounts to publicly threaten and extort their victims.
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Researchers develop soft robot that shifts from land to sea with ease

Most animals can quickly transition from walking to jumping to crawling to swimming if needed without reconfiguring or making major adjustments. Most robots cannot. But researchers have now created soft robots that can seamlessly shift from walking to swimming, for example, or crawling to rolling using a bistable actuator made of 3D-printed soft rubber containing shape-memory alloy springs that react to electrical currents by contracting, which causes the actuator to bend. The team used this bistable motion to change the actuator or robot’s shape. Once the robot changes shape, it is stable until another electrical charge morphs it back to its previous configuration.
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Pentagon’s $842B budget boosts procurement, R&D as personnel levels shrink

Even accounting for inflation, DoD’s 2024 budget is the largest it’s proposed since the peak of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Weapons procurement and R&D are big focus areas as personnel levels shrink or stay flat.
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, March 14th, 2023 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail.html?id=8408, (Tue, Mar 14th)

(c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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SA Water to modernise its data stack

Hopes to make better use of data and AI organisation-wide.
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Dark Pink APT group linked to new KamiKakaBot attacks in Southeast Asia

The recently identified Dark Pink advanced persistent threat (APT) group is likely behind a fresh set of KamiKakaBot malware attacks on ASEAN governments and military entities, according to Netherlands-based cybersecurity company ElecticIQ. The attacks, which took place in February, were “almost identical” to those reported by Russia-based cybersecurity firm Group-IB on January 11, 2023, ElectricIQ said. Multiple overlapping techniques used in the campaigns helped EclecticIQ analysts to  attribute the recent attacks as likely to be the work of the Dark Pink APT group. To read this article in full, please click here
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