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• Utah Tech CEO Jailed for Possessing Thousands of Files Depicting Child Sexual Abuse

  29-05-2020 20:13
  Utah Tech CEO Jailed for Possessing Thousands of Files Depicting Child Sexual Abuse The 40-year-old one-time CEO of a Utah tech company is serving a custodial sentence after downloading over 13,000 images of child sexual abuse, bestiality, and rape. Douglas Eugene Saltsman was sentenced yesterday to 210 days in prison and 48 months of probation by Utah 3rd District Judge Douglas Hogan after being convicted on three felony charges of sexual exploitation of a minor. Addressing
  
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• Texas University to Create Cybersecurity Innovation Institute

  29-05-2020 19:04
  Texas University to Create Cybersecurity Innovation Institute The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) is to create and lead a new federal digital research institute that will devise ways to shield America's manufacturers from cyber-threats. In addition to assisting US industry in blocking cyber-attacks, the Cybersecurity Manufacturing Innovation Institute (CyManII) will explore how to help manufacturers achieve energy efficiency. Other areas of focus will include supporting techn
  
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• UK Government Launches Funding Program to Boost Security of IoT Market

  29-05-2020 17:15
  UK Government Launches Funding Program to Boost Security of IoT MarketThe UK government has today launched a program to incentivize the creation of design schemes that test the security of Internet of things (IoT) products. Under the initiative, innovators are encouraged to bid for funding from a pot of £400,000 to create more assurance schemes, which ultimately aims to boost the security of consumer-smart products.Assurance schemes are vital in the IoT product market, as they pr
  
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• Alabama Seniors Offered Free Cybersecurity Courses

  29-05-2020 16:34
  Alabama Seniors Offered Free Cybersecurity Courses Seniors in Alabama are being given the chance to learn about cybersecurity free of charge thanks to the University of Alabama.Cybersecurity is just one of a batch of free online adult education courses being offered by the university's Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).Usually, OLLI courses are delivered in a traditional classroom setting; however, all in-person programming has been suspended in an effort to slow the spread of C
  
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• Most Organizations Not Prepared to Safely Support Home Working

  29-05-2020 16:05
  Most Organizations Not Prepared to Safely Support Home WorkingMost organizations are not sufficiently prepared to securely support remote working even though 84% intend to continue this practice beyond COVID-19 lockdowns, according to Bitglass’ 2020 Remote Workforce Report. The survey of IT professionals found that 41% of businesses have not taken any steps to expand secure access for the remote workforce, while 65% are allowing personal devices to access managed applications.The stud
  
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• Eurofighter: Flight Tests Continue with the E-SCAN Radar

  29-05-2020 13:57 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkA Eurofighter flight test campaign dedicated to the configuration chosen by Kuwait, with E-SCAN radar and other important enhancements, is certainly demanding and complex. Mario...
  
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• US indicts NKoreans, Chinese over $2.5 bn network to dodge sanctions

  29-05-2020 13:26 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe US Justice Department indicted 28 North Koreans and five Chinese on Thursday for operating a money laundering ring that moved billions of dollars through global banks to...
  
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• H145M Helicopter – The Flying Command Post

  29-05-2020 13:15 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe H145M is a true multi-role helicopter. In addition to tactical air transport of six fully equipped special-forces commandos, this light twin-engine helicopter can be...
  
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• US approves sale of 84 Patriot missiles to Kuwait

  29-05-2020 13:07 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe United States said Thursday it has approved the sale of 84 of the most recent generation of Patriot missiles to Kuwait, plus equipment to modernize the country’s...
  
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• USAF MC-130J Drops Palletized Weapons, Tests Arsenal Plane Concept

  29-05-2020 13:01 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThrough a partnership with the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Air Force Special Operations Command successfully released simulated palletized munitions in three airdrops at...
  
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• NSA: Russian Military Sandworm Group is Hacking Email Servers

  29-05-2020 12:40
  NSA: Russian Military Sandworm Group is Hacking Email ServersThe US National Security Agency (NSA) has released a new alert warning that Russian state hackers have been exploiting a vulnerability in Exim email servers for over nine months.Exim is mail transfer agent (MTA) software developed by the University of Cambridge which is used on Unix-based operating systems. Bundled with many popular Linus distributions like Red Hat and Debian, it’s thought to run on millions of email servers glob
  
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• Advanced Air and Missile Defense, in the Hands of Soldiers

  29-05-2020 11:17 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIt’s a cold December morning at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, and two surrogate cruise missile targets have just been launched, one after the other. They are...
  
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• Revealed: Advanced Java-Based Ransomware PonyFinal

  29-05-2020 11:15
  Revealed: Advanced Java-Based Ransomware PonyFinalMicrosoft has warned of a new type of data stealing Java-based ransomware, dubbed PonyFinal.PonyFinal is what Microsoft describes as “human-operated ransomware” — to distinguish it from commoditized variants that are distributed in an automated way by hackers.The tech giant’s Security Intelligence group revealed in a series of tweets this week that the first stage involves access to a targeted organization via brute f
  
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• Over 600 NTT Customers Hit in Major Data Breach

  29-05-2020 10:20
  Over 600 NTT Customers Hit in Major Data BreachOne of the world’s largest telecoms and IT services companies has revealed that attackers may have stolen data from its internal systems, affecting over 600 customers.NTT Communications provides cloud, network and data center services to some of the world’s biggest companies. Its parent, NTT Group, is ranked in the top 100 of the Fortune Global 500.The firm claimed in a lengthy statement on Thursday that it detected unauthorized access t
  
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