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Security News for the Week Ending September 29, 2023

Writers Guild Settles Strike With Anti-AI Provision The Writers Guild has tentatively agreed to a new contract with Hollywood that has some sort of anti-AI provision as writers don’t want to be replaced by a computer for much less money. The details have not yet been released, but will likely be copied in many contracts […]

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Yet Another Hosting Provider Hit By Ransomware Attack

SmarterASP.net, a web hosting provider with over 400,000 customers, was infected by ransomware over the weekend. They are, at least, the third provider to be hit by such an attack. Affected user web sites are down and the company’s website was also down. Customers logging in might see a directory listing that looks like this […]

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Government Employee Use Of Underground IT 10 Times Private Sector

Skyhigh Networks, a cloud security product vendor, did an analysis of data from government employees on cloud service usage. They say that the average public sector organization uses 742 cloud services, of which 60 are sanctioned.  That means that typical organization uses 682 services that no one has looked at the security of – or […]

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