October 2023 NICE Community Coordinating Council Monthly Meeting Recap
#ICYMI – Monthly Meeting Recap In case you missed last month’s meeting, the minutes from the October 24,...
The Importance of Continuous Security Monitoring for a Robust Cybersecurity Strategy
In 2023, the global average cost of a data breach reached $4.45 million. Beyond the immediate financial loss, there...
Alert: OracleIV DDoS Botnet Targets Public Docker Engine APIs to Hijack Containers
Publicly-accessible Docker Engine API instances are being targeted by threat actors as part of a campaign designed to...
CI/CD Risks: Protecting Your Software Development Pipelines
Have you heard about Dependabot? If not, just ask any developer around you, and they’ll likely rave about...
Meta OKs deleting Threads without losing Instagram
Previously, getting rid of the app fully required deleting the associated Instagram account. Source:: BBC News – Technology
Q&A: NY Life exec says AI will reboot hiring, training, change management
In 2015, New York Life Insurance Co. began building up a data science team to investigate the use...
New Campaign Targets Middle East Governments with IronWind Malware
Government entities in the Middle East are the target of new phishing campaigns that are designed to deliver...
Advanced threat predictions for 2024
Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are the most dangerous threats, as they employ complex tools and techniques, and often...
Vietnamese Hackers Using New Delphi-Powered Malware to Target Indian Marketers
The Vietnamese threat actors behind the Ducktail stealer malware have been linked to a new campaign that ran...
‘I left my job to play Football Manager full time’
Tom Kelsey, 26, says he now makes double the salary he earned at his previous council job. Source::...
CISA Sets a Deadline – Patch Juniper Junos OS Flaws Before November 17
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given a November 17, 2023, deadline for federal agencies...
Nepal to ban TikTok citing disruption to social harmony
TikTok has come under scrutiny over concerns that data could be passed to the Chinese government. Source:: BBC...
Customizable action buttons are now available in AWS Chatbot
Today, AWS announces the general availability of customizable actions in the AWS Chatbot. Actions are configurable buttons displayed...
Announcing Research and Engineering Studio on AWS
Research and Engineering Studio on AWS (RES) is an open source, easy-to-use web-based portal for administrators to create...
Amazon MSK extends AWS IAM support to all programming languages for new clusters
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK)’s Identity and and Access Management feature now supports all programming languages....
Amazon MSK Serverless now supports all programming languages
Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (Amazon MSK) Serverless now supports writes and reads from Kafka clients written...
Amazon Elastic Container Service now supports idempotency for task launches
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) now supports idempotency for task launches, allowing you to safely retry task...
AWS Elastic Load Balancing introduces IAM condition keys for encryption and access controls
You can now use Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) service-specific condition keys in IAM policies to restrict configurations for...
AWS launches a new Local Zone in Dallas, Texas
Today, AWS announces the general availability of a new Local Zone in Dallas, Texas. This new AWS Local...
Llama 2 Chat 13B foundation model from Meta is now available in Amazon Bedrock
You can now access Meta’s Llama 2 Chat model (13B) in Amazon Bedrock. Llama 2 models are next...