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Mozilla buys Fakespot, a startup that identifies fake reviews, to bring shopping tools to Firefox

TechCrunch

Mozilla announced today that it has acquired Fakespot , a startup that offers a website and browser extension that helps users identify fake or unreliable reviews. Fakespot’s offerings can be used to spot fake reviews listed on various online marketplaces including Amazon, Yelp, TripAdvisor and more.

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Resilience, an introduction.

Xebia

An organization or an IT system is in difficulties when an event results in a decrease of its value output. The decline in the value is the period of time a system absorbs the stress, and recovery is when the value output is on the rise. Taleb stated that there are “systems” that break when exposed to a stressor. See figure 1.

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Frontline Festival: February 2016

Let's Grow Leaders

Submissions due March 11th– new participants always welcome, please use this form. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, we turn our focus to fresh perspectives for leaders. Give us your best fresh insight! Trust is the glue of life. Stephen Covey. Follow Julie.

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CVE-2020-1350: Wormable Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Windows DNS Server Disclosed (SIGRed)

Tenable

On July 14, Microsoft patched a critical vulnerability in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server as part of Patch Tuesday for July 2020. Microsoft has published its own blog post about the flaw , warning that they consider it wormable. Researchers disclose a 17-year old wormable flaw in Windows DNS servers. Background. 4565524.

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

Tenable

This blog post was published on July 7 and reflects VPR at that time. 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. Since July 1, researchers have been diligently developing PoCs for PrintNightmare. CVE-2021-34527.

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The Ransomware Threat: Bigger, Greedier, Attacking the Most Vulnerable

Palo Alto Networks

In fact, our review of cases handled last year found that the average paid ransom nearly tripled to $312,493 (from $115,123 in 2019). That’s a staggering increase from 2016, when the majority of transactions were between $200 and $500. The highest ransomware demand we observed surged to $30 million in 2020 (from $15 million in 2019).

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: 6 Things That Matter Right Now

Tenable

That’s the bad news the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cyber Safety Review Board delivered in a recent report. DHS Review Board Deems Log4j an 'Endemic' Cyber Threat ” (DarkReading). The Impact Of Assessing And Addressing Log4j Installations Proactively ” (Tenable blog). Are they all using MFA?