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How security leaders can effectively manage Gen Z staff

CSO Magazine

Gen Z refers to those born between mid-to-late 1990s and 2010, making them between the ages of 11 and 28. This means they grew up experiencing a much faster rate in which technology evolves. In doing so, I had to educate myself on what they value and realized the many differences between Gen Z and previous generations.

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Tracing what went wrong in 2012 for today’s teens, with Dr. Jean Twenge: Lock and Code S04E10

Malwarebytes

After more than a decade of our most recent technological experiment, in turns out that having the entirety of the internet in the palm of your hands could be … not so great. In the same time period for the same group, there was in increase in diagnoses of depression by 106%, ADHD by 72%, bipolar by 57%, and anorexia by 100%.

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

Krebs on Security

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. com , a malware-based proxy network that has been in existence since at least 2010. Image: Spur.us.

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GUEST ESSAY: Where we stand on mitigating software risks associated with fly-by-wire jetliners

The Last Watchdog

Government Accountability Office in 2020 about increasing risk due to connected aircraft technology developments. Hilderman Many components and systems within an aircraft can exchange data and communicate with each other or with the external internet. There was another warning from the U.S. And those incidents may only be increasing.

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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on Security

Before the Internet revolution, military-grade electronics were different from consumer-grade. The military responded by creating a category of military hardware called COTS: commercial off-the-shelf technology. They're used by election officials, police at all levels, nuclear power plant operators, CEOs and human rights activists.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

For example, in 2010 Spamdot and its spam affiliate program Spamit were hacked, and its user database shows Sal and Icamis often accessed the forum from the same Internet address — usually from Cherepovets , an industrial town situated approximately 230 miles north of Moscow. One such site — sun-technology[.]net

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China using AI to develop robots that can hide in sea launch bombs and cyber attacks

CyberSecurity Insiders

China is once again in the news for misusing the technology of Artificial Intelligence. Researchers hailing from Harbin Engineering University who have been working on this project since 2010 have written theoretical studies related to the matter on papers.