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Five James Bond gadgets which use real world technologies

CyberSecurity Insiders

To celebrate the recent release of the latest film No Time to Die , here’s our top five gadgets from the quintessential spy series, and how they relate to technologies we see in everyday life. Microchip implant – Casino Royale (2006). Palm print-enabled Walther PPK – Skyfall (2012). While most cars we drive today (hopefully!)

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Lawmakers Should Update The Anti-Money-Laundering Act Of 2020 To Account For Inflation

Joseph Steinberg

While technological improvements over the past 51 years have obviously improved law enforcement’s capabilities vis-à-vis identifying problematic transactions, overreporting as a result of unnecessarily low thresholds can sometimes also hamper money-laundering detection by “creating much larger haystacks in which needles must be found.”

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ISG Presents 2021 ISG Star of Excellence Awards to Hexaware, Infosys and Rackspace Technology

CyberSecurity Insiders

Connors announced Hexaware, Infosys and Rackspace as the winners of the fourth annual ISG Star of Excellence Awards for earning the highest cumulative customer experience scores across all regions, industries and technology areas. STAMFORD, Conn.–(

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News alert: DigiCert acquires Vercara to enhance cloud-based DNS management, DDoS protection

The Last Watchdog

We believe the combination of Vercara’s talent and suite of products with DigiCert’s technology and platform, history of innovation, and scale will help ensure customers get the highest level of digital trust available.” About Clearlake: Founded in 2006, Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. For more information, visit www.vercara.com.

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20 Years of SIEM: Celebrating My Dubious Anniversary

Anton on Security

BTW, lots of names for this technology space were in use back then, ultimately SIM/SEM won and then was forever fused together by Gartner. Definitely, the technology context has changed, but the security challenges remain the same to a very large extent. If you are curious, what did people care about those days? it wasn’t the auditors!

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

In a statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity, Group-IB said Mr. Kislitsin is no longer an employee, and that he now works for a Russian organization called FACCT , which stands for “ Fight Against Cybercrime Technologies.” “The company is monitoring developments.”

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Researcher finds 5 privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux kernel

SC Magazine

Oracle Co-Founder Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in 2006. A researcher at Positive Technologies found five similar vulnerabilities in the kernel of Linux operating systems that can allow an attacker to escalate local privileges on a victim’s network. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).