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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. Lynch’s lawyers will later claim that HP executives spent just six hours in conference calls with his team.

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Nord Security, the startup behind NordVPN, raises its first-ever funding, $100M at a $1.6B valuation

TechCrunch

What’s notable here is that Vilnius, Lithuania-based Nord has been bootstrapped for the last 10 years (it was founded in 2012), a state that doesn’t seem to have held back its growth. Internal security teams were increased and the company now goes through regular audits, in partnership with U.S. firm Versprite.

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10 steps guide on how to manage remote teams

Hacker Earth Developers Blog

Technology helps teams stay connected irrespective of their location. Even though the transformation has many advantages but it has also created new challenges for the leaders in Talent Acquisition and Learning & Development domain. The “Why” of remote team. 10 steps to managing remote teams effectively.

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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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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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Top 25 Web Development Companies In Dubai UAE

Xicom

Did you ever ask any experienced business owner how was their experience with a web development company for their website development? Experimenting with your first project can be a perplexing preposition without succinct diligence due to the selection of the right web development companies in Dubai.

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What Is cloud security?

Lacework

Amazon released Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2002, Google launched Google App Engine’s beta version in 2008, Microsoft’s Azure made its debut in 2010, and Google Compute Engine premiered in 2012. Ensuring that DevOps teams can work efficiently without sacrificing security is challenging. Scan for Misconfigurations.

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