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MY TAKE: Rising geopolitical tensions suggest a dire need for tighter cybersecurity in 2024

The Last Watchdog

and Israel, 2005 – 2010,) Operation Aurora (China, 2009,) the Sony Pictures hack (North Korea, 2015,) and WannaCry (North Korea, 2017.) Regulators are responding by implementing stricter data privacy and supply chain security standards. It’s not just Russia. This means company leaders must do their due diligence.

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Jail for consultant who scraped colossal trove of Alibaba customer data

Malwarebytes

In 2005 it started a close cooperation with Yahoo! None of the customer data was sold and Alibaba’s users didn’t incur financial losses from the episode, the company said in a statement. Taobao devotes substantial resources to combat unauthorized scraping on our platform, as data privacy and security is of utmost importance.

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The Essential Guide to Radio Frequency Penetration Testing

Pen Test

In contemporary times, with the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT), smart homes, connected cars, and wearable devices, the importance of RF pentesting has soared significantly. GHz and 5 GHz bands, providing high-speed wireless internet connectivity (Kurkovsky, 2006). In Handbook of Big Data Technologies (pp.