Privacy nightmare or useful tool?
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Introduction
The chapter delves into recent cybersecurity events, from healthcare breaches to critical vulnerability fixes. It also touches on advancements in fraud detection using AI and concerns around privacy features in new computing technologies.
Some say Microsoft’s Recall should be. A breach of a Texas healthcare provided affects over four hundred thousand. Police in the Philippines shut down services following a breach. Ivanti patches multiple products. GitHub fixes a critical authentication bypass vulnerability. Researchers discover critical vulnerabilities in Honeywell’s ControlEdge Unit Operations Controller. The DoD releases their Cybersecurity Reciprocity Playbook. Hackers leak a database with millions of Americans’ criminal records. Mastercard speeds fraud detection with AI. On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey, diving into Domain 5: Identity and Access Management. Remembering a computing visionary.
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Learning Layer
On our Learning Layer segment, host Sam Meisenberg and Joe Carrigan continue their discussion of Joe's ISC2 CISSP certification journey using N2K’s comprehensive CISSP training course, CISSP practice test, and CISSP practice labs. Joe and Sam dive into Domain 5: Identity and Access Management (IAM) and tackle a question together about biometric configuration. Try the question yourself before listening to the discussion!
You are configuring a biometric hand scanner to secure your data center. Which of the following practices is BEST to follow?
- Decrease the reader sensitivity
- Increase the FAR
- Decrease the FRR
- Increase the reader sensitivity
Selected Reading
UK watchdog looking into Microsoft AI taking screenshots (BBC)
How the new Microsoft Recall feature fundamentally undermines Windows security (DoublePulsar)
CentroMed Confirms Data Breach Affecting an Estimated 400k | Console and Associates, P.C. (JDSupra)
PNP suspends online services amid data breach probe (Philippine News Agency)
Ivanti Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerabilities in Endpoint Manager (SecurityWeek)
Critical SAML Auth Bypass Vulnerability Found in GitHub Enterprise Server (Heimdal Security)
Critical Vulnerability in Honeywell Virtual Controller Allows Remote Code Execution (SecurityWeek)
DoD CIO debuts cybersecurity reciprocity playbook to streamline system authorizations, boost cybersecurity efficiency (Industrial Cyber)
Criminal record database of millions of Americans dumped online (Malwarebytes)
Mastercard Doubles Speed of Fraud Detection with Generative AI (Infosecurity Magazine)
Gordon Bell, Legendary Designer of Computers, Dies at 89 (Gizmodo)
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