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Security News Bites for the Week Ending June 16, 2023

White House Cyber Official to Depart Rob Knake, who served as deputy national cyber director for budget and policy and a key drafter of the National cyber strategy is leaving this week. Following Chris Inglis resignation a few months ago, this represents a problem in pushing the administration’s cyber strategy. Some lawmakers are supporting nominating […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending May 26, 2023

Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]

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Verified Twitter Account Uses AI to Spread Hoax Pentagon Explosion

There is always a dark side to any piece of tech. AI is no exception. Dozens of verified Twitter accounts with large numbers of followers showed this picture today. Only the photo posted on Twitter did not have a big red FAKE on it. Accounts such as @WarMonitors, @BloombergFeed, and RT posted an image of a large, gray smoke […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending May 19, 2023

Part Time Hackers Get Rich A business email compromise hacking group, based in Israel, is so good that it only needs to work part time. Only targeting large companies and their executives, the average haul for this team is $712,000. The overall average from BEC attacks is only $65,000. Learn their success strategy and avoid […]

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