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Ex-employee of major South-East Asian IT firm jailed after he brings down its test servers — with scripts found on Google
An Indian national formerly employed in Singapore by the information technology (IT) services firm National Computer Systems (NCS) has been handed a custodial sentence for deleting all 180 of its test servers with scripts that he found on Google and then “perfected”. The story (via Tom’s Hardware) says Kandula Nagaraju,…
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New York Times warns freelancer journalists their data may have been stolen in cyberattack
The New York Times has warned a number of its freelance associates that their data may have been stolen in a recent attack on its GitHub repositories. News recently broke of a hacker posting source code belonging to the New York Times Company on the anonymous imageboard, 4chan. The archive…
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Panera warns employees their data may have been leaked following cyberattack
Panera Bread has confirmed suffering a ransomware attack earlier this year. The company sent out a data breach notification letter to affected customers earlier this week, confirming some sensitive customer information was stolen from company servers. As per the notification letter, the company discovered the attack on March 23, 2024,…
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Minding the RPA management gaps
Automation has been a cornerstone of business innovation for centuries, evolving from early mechanisms like the water wheel and windmill to the revolutionary impacts of the steam engine and electricity. However, the automation process was never developed to be hands-off, e.g., leave it running and walk away. Monitoring, management, and…
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US government agency warns scammers are spoofing it — so make sure you don’t pick up this call
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the government agency looking after cybersecurity protections, has issued a warning it is being impersonated by scammers. In an alert, the organization said impersonation scams were on the rise, and that they often use the names and titles of government employees. “The…
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Oracle is shutting down its advertising business despite millions in revenues
Oracle has announced the closure of its advertising business, marking an end to its ambitious efforts in the online advertising market. The decision, revealed on its most recent Q4 earnings call, follows a steady decline in revenue, which dropped to $300 million for the 2024 financial years, according to Oracle…
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