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The HP-Autonomy lawsuit: Timeline of an M&A disaster

CIO

The 1990s: Founding myth 1990: Mike Lynch, an academic in Cambridge, England, borrows—or so the legend goes—£2,000 to start Cambridge Neurodynamics, going on to develop the software that would later give rise to Autonomy. March 2004: Autonomy acquires NativeMinds and Cardiff Software. Here’s how it played out.

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CVE-2021-34527: Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Patch for PrintNightmare Vulnerability in Windows Print Spooler

Tenable

Research community actively developing PoC exploits for PrintNightmare. Since July 1, researchers have been diligently developing PoCs for PrintNightmare. Benjamin Delpy , developer of the comprehensive post-exploitation tool Mimikatz, updated the software to add support for the PrintNightmare exploit using cube0x0’s method.

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Attending Oracle’s CodeOne? Here Are 15 Sessions Everyone Will Be Talking About

OverOps

Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc. Moscone West – Room 2004. No matter how quickly or slowly code moves through development or how diligent your testing is, some issues will only surface in production when real data is involved. Venkat Subramaniam , President, Agile Developer, Inc.

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SMBleed (CVE-2020-1206) and SMBLost (CVE-2020-1301) Vulnerabilities Affect Microsoft SMBv3 and SMBv1

Tenable

The first version of the SMB protocol (SMBv1) was developed at IBM by Barry Feigenbaum in 1983 and it was eventually implemented in Microsoft Windows in 1992. However, after reviewing all the changes, they decided that marking this release as a minor revision “doesn’t do justice [sic] the work that has gone in.” Server Message Block.

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Managing the Pipeline

LeanEssays

Then the IT people assigned to my projects don’t know anything about my business, so the team spins its wheels for a long time before it gets traction. In an attempt to impose discipline and cut costs, XYZ centralized software development. Efficiency? What a joke.” The problem was, XYZ’s products were largely based on software.