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| Source |  AlienVault Blog |
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| Identifiant | 876439 |
| Date de publication | 2018-11-02 13:00:00 (vue: 2018-11-02 17:00:40) |
| Titre | Things I Hearted this Week, 2nd Nov 2018 |
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It’s November already, where has the year gone to? I can almost still remember typing out the words for the year’s first ‘Things I hearted’ blog back in January. Re-reading it now, it feels as if not much has changed, big messes, breaches, an in-fighting seemed like the usual for the year.
I was speaking with my colleague Chris Doman a couple of days ago, and he did point out that 2018 overall has largely been better because we haven’t seen any large scale attack like WannaCry. He did pause and then add “yet” - so I suppose you could say we’ve improved because this year has caused less havoc than last year? Let’s chalk risk reduction down to a win and get on with it.
IBM Acquired Red Hat
A few weeks ago, prior to the announcement of the acquisition, IBM came up in discussion with a few friends and one of them said that IBM is one of those companies that everyone has heard of, but hardly anyone knows what they exactly do outside of a few services they use.
As the cool kids say, this may have been a statement designed to “throw shade” (young and hip people, please correct me if I’ve used the term incorrectly - I already embarrass my children enough by misusing lingo), but the fact is that the statement is rather true, only because most people are still trying to work out why IBM would shell out 33.4 Instagrams for Red Hat.
IBM acquires Red Hat, but what does that mean? | 451 Research blog
Why IBM bought Red Hat: It's all open source cloud, all the time | ZDNet
6 Things to Know About IBM's $34B Acquisition of Red Hat | CMS Wire
IBMs old playbook | Stratechery
The Supply Chain
I won’t give any more air time to that ridiculous ‘grain of rice’ Bloomberg story. However, it did give everyone time to pause and think about the supply-chain and how fragile it is. It’s easy to overlook the reliance businesses have on partners and their security.
Dan Goodin took a peek behind the curtain of this shady practice and wrote on two supply-chain attacks.
Two new supply-chain attacks come to light in less than a week | Ars Technica
Would you Compromise Privacy for $850m?
Under pressure from Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg to monetize WhatsApp, Brian Acton pushed back as Facebook questioned the encryption he'd helped build and laid the groundwork to show targeted ads and facilitate commercial messaging. Acton also walked away from Facebook a year before his final tranche of stock grants vested. “I |
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| Condensat | 2018 2nd > border:0;margin:0;padding:0; com/i/rss20 feedblitz hearted https://assets nov png style= things week |
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| Stories | Wannacry |
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