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Daily Crunch: Months after rejecting a $17B bid, Zendesk sells to private equity group for $10.2B

TechCrunch

As Frederic writes, Amazon trained the system — which currently supports Java, JavaScript and Python — on billions of lines of publicly available open source code and its own codebase, as well as publicly available documentation and code on public forums.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Tips for cloud configs, MSP vetting, CISO board presentations

Tenable

You can also check out Microsoft365DSC , an open source tool for managing Microsoft 365 tenant configurations. Here’s the full list: SocGholish, a remote access trojan (RAT) and a banking trojan that uses fake Flash updates. ZeuS, a modular banking trojan that uses keystroke logging.

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Forget the Rules, Listen to the Data

Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

This traditional approach of using rules or logic statement to query transactions is still used by many banks and payment gateways today and the bad guys are having a field day. In the past 10 years the incidents of fraud have escalated thanks to new technologies, like mobile, that have been adopted by banks to better serve their customers.

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Why Is It Necessary to Run Cybersecurity Evaluation Exercises?

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The commands are often sourced from or based on open-source tools and information banks. Moreover, spyware can result in data losses that can also mean disruptions in business operations.

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Daily Crunch: Twitter tells GitHub to remove proprietary source code and help them ID who posted it

TechCrunch

Ahead of the game : A GitHub user named “FreeSpeechEnthusiast” wanted to get the drop on Elon Musk’s promise to open source all code used to recommend tweets on March 31 by creating a repository on GitHub that contained Twitter’s source code. Ivan explains what happened next.

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Radar Trends to Watch: August 2022

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Benchmarks, training code, and models are all open source. Lockdown mode provides an extreme degree of privacy; it is intended for people who believe they are being targeted by state-sponsored mercenary spyware. It’s similar to a traditional bank in that you never withdraw the same money you deposited.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: 6 Things That Matter Right Now

Tenable

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the National Security Agency (NSA) released an eye-opening joint advisory this week, outlining a months-long advanced persistent threat (APT) attack against an unnamed “defense industrial base organization.”. ZeuS, a modular banking trojan that uses keystroke logging.

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