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ICO Warns of “Immature” Biometric Tech

UK privacy regulator says vulnerable people may be at risk

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See Tickets Discloses Major Card Data Breach

Unspecified number of customers impacted over 2.5 years

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Ransomware Threat Shifts from US to EMEA and APAC

SonicWall figures show overall attacks trending down

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  • October 26, 2022

VMware Releases Patch for Critical RCE Flaw in Cloud Foundation Platform

VMware on Tuesday shipped security updates to address a critical security flaw in its VMware Cloud Foundation product. Tracked as CVE-2021-39144, the issue has been rated 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system, and relates to a remote code execution vulnerability via XStream open source library. “Due to an unauthenticated endpoint that […]

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  • October 26, 2022

Clearview AI image-scraping face recognition service hit with €20m fine in France

“We told you to stop but you ignored us,” said the French regulator, “so now we’re coming after you again.”

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The most dangerous and destructive ransomware groups of 2022

As ransomware attacks continued this year, a few key groups inflicted some of the greatest damage to their victims. The post The most dangerous and destructive ransomware groups of 2022 appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Secure corporate emails with intent-based BEC detection

Business email compromise is a severe threat that might affect any company. One promising way to improve detection on this kind of cybercrime might be intent-based detection. The post Secure corporate emails with intent-based BEC detection appeared first on TechRepublic.

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Data Breaches Rise By 70% Globally in Q3 2022

Russia had the most breaches overall and France had the highest breach density

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  • October 25, 2022

CloudFormation cannot update a stack when a custom-named resource requires replacing

Should this issue be handled by CloudFormation automatically behind the scenes? I added a customer managed prefix list to a security group and then I started getting this error message: CloudFormation cannot update a stack when a custom-named resource requires replacing This is a very strange error message to me. What exactly is a custom-named resource? I […]

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