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

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CVE-2021-34527 is an RCE vulnerability in the Windows Print Spooler Service , which is available across desktop and server versions of Windows operating systems. An authenticated, remote or local attacker, could exploit this flaw in order to gain arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges. for 32-bit systems Windows 8.1

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What Is cloud security?

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Cloud computing’s first boom began in the 1960s when virtualization — a strategy for dividing system resources between multiple applications — and time-sharing were made popular by vendors like IBM. Ensuring that DevOps teams can work efficiently without sacrificing security is challenging. Scan for Misconfigurations.

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Endgame Announces Advisory Board with Commercial and Federal Technology Expertise

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The Advisory Board members will lend their vision, range of experience, and extensive expertise in the commercial and federal technology space to Endgame’s leadership as the company continues to develop solutions that address a wide array of security problems for its federal and commercial customers. “We Endgame, Inc.

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How architecture evolves into strategy

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

A look at the roles of architect and strategist, and how they help develop successful technology strategies for business. Technology systems are difficult to wrangle. Our systems grow in accidental complexity and complication over time. By 2012, Harvard Business Review published an article by Thomas Davenport and D.J.

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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

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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.