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Tough tumbler: Lock-picking vs. the pandemic shutdown

The Parallax

DefCon’s Lockpick Village this year, run by The Open Organization Of Lockpickers (TOOOL.us), was held entirely on a Discord chat server for DefCon’s online-only version of the conference. representatives declined to comment about the DefCon event for this story. Tweak them in the right order, and the lock opens.

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Broadcom’s Approach Towards Delivering Customer Value

CIO

We’ve enabled customers to leverage unprecedented productivity and connectivity because, in hardware, we’ve pioneered seven generations of Wi-Fi products over the last two decades and increased Wi-Fi speeds by 100 times since our first smartphone chip. He has held this position since March 2006.

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6 cybersecurity trends we’re thankful for

The Parallax

Certainly, we’ve recently been bombarded by alarming or depressing news in the cybersecurity and privacy arena, from new scams exploiting hacked passwords to hacks of 30 million Facebook accounts to the rise of the Meltdown and Spectre hardware exploits. election security experts grab the attention of influencers in D.C.

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Securing voting machines means raising funds

The Parallax

Security vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines, or EVMs, have been well-documented since at least 2005 , but officials often believed that the problems could be ignored because manufacturers said the machines couldn’t be connected to the Internet. The challenge is funding those changes, Schneider says.

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The Evolution of Cloud-Native Application Security

Prisma Clud

Application security refers to the practices and strategies that protect software applications from vulnerabilities, threats and unauthorized access so that organizations can ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of their application and its data. But why do we need to rethink how we define secure deployment?

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10 Best Colleges in India for Computer Science [Private & Government]

The Crazy Programmer

Computer Science Engineering (CSE) encapsulates a variety of topics like programming languages, software, hardware, robotics, computation, analysis of algorithms, etc. Out of these nearly 2005 colleges are private, 323 are government and about 36 are semi-government colleges. Parameters for Ranking.

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Infrastructure as Code Explained: Benefits, Types, and Tools

Altexsoft

There are currently over 11,000 DevOps positions offered on Indeed in the US and 74 percent of organizations have already adopted DevOps, among which are Amazon, Facebook, Netflix, Walmart, NASA, and more. It consists of hardware such as servers, data centers, desktop computers and software including operating systems, web servers, etc.