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2017-08-23 09:23:29 | Apple iCloud Keychain easily slurped, ElcomSoft says (lien direct) | ElcomSoft, the Russia-based maker of forensic software, has managed to find a way to access the data stored in Apple’s iCloud Keychain, if Apple ID account credentials are available. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Register | ★★ | ||
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2017-08-23 09:20:43 | President Trump could cost US cloud industry $10bn by 2020 (lien direct) | President Donald Trump is no stranger to criticism, seemingly always in the firing line of many a critic. Data centre provider Artmotion has today joined the critics, claiming that Trump's stance on data privacy could hit the US cloud industry for more than $10 billion by 2020. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CBR Online | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-23 09:18:39 | Samsung Galaxy Note 8 release today: Leaked specs and photos emerge hours before release (lien direct) | Leaked images, price details and specs of the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 have emerged hours before the high-end smartphone is due to be released. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: The Telegraph | |||
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2017-08-23 09:15:54 | (Déjà vu) Google Play Store Security Scans Tricked by …Sigh… In-Dev Malware (lien direct) | Google has yet to remove two apps infected with dangerous malware that are currently still available for download via the official Google Play Store. View Full Story original source: Bleeping Computer | |||
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2017-08-23 09:11:51 | Identity theft at epidemic levels, warns Cifas (lien direct) | Identity theft is reaching “epidemic levels”, according to a fraud prevention group, with people in their 30s the most targeted group. ID fraudsters obtain personal information before pretending to be that individual and apply for loans or store cards in their name. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC.co.uk | |||
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2017-08-22 10:24:25 | Spam email remains a potent threat tool for hackers (lien direct) | Online criminals are keeping the faith with http://www.itproportal.com/news/unsafe-emails-are-still-squeezing-through/, with more and more nuisance messages being sent today than ever before. Figures from IBM have shown that spam email remains a key tool for hackers, with the volume of such messages increasing 400 per cent in the past year. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: ITProPortal | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-22 10:20:29 | Security and privacy are critical to deliver safety for the next generation vehicle (lien direct) | Automobiles today have powerful computers interacting with one another, receiving volumes of data from a complex network of sensors. As the industry is moving to more automated driving, more powerful computers are added to the mix for real time vision processing. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Information Age | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-22 10:18:15 | Game of Thrones: HBO hackers threaten leak of season finale (lien direct) | The hackers who compromised HBO's network systems in July have threatened to leak the final two episodes of Game of Thrones. The “Mr Smith group†of hackers told tech site Mashable that it has access to “many HBO platforms†and that HBO should be “ready†for the leak of episode six, which aired on Sunday, and episode ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-08-22 10:16:29 | Organisations risk hefty government fines as new research shows continuing failure to prepare for cyber-attacks (lien direct) | Almost a third (31 per cent) of organisations have been affected by cyber-crime in the past 12 months, according to new research from Databarracks. In light of this, the business continuity expert suggests that organisations must look to invest in ongoing cyber awareness training, especially following the government's proposed fines for firms who fall victim ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-08-22 10:14:16 | Fortinet Threat Landscape Report Reveals Poor Security Hygiene and Risky Applications Enable Destructive Cyberattacks to Spread Infection at Record Pace (lien direct) | Fortinet, the global leader in high-performance cybersecurity solutions, today announced the findings of its latest Global Threat Landscape Report. The research reveals that poor cybersecurity hygiene and risky application usage enables destructive worm-like attacks to take advantage of hot exploits at record speed. Adversaries are spending less time developing ways to break in, and instead are ... | Guideline | ★★★★★ | |
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2017-08-21 10:01:48 | Android new malware FakeToken steals user details of cab hailing-apps : Kaspersky (lien direct) | Moscow-based cybersecurity provider, Kaspersky detected an Android Malware FakeToken which is creating a serious security threat to all the users who are registered in Android cab-hailing applications by stealing their information, calls, and texts. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: Tech Facts Live | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-21 10:00:15 | Killer robots: Experts warn of \'third revolution in warfare\' (lien direct) | More than 100 leading robotics experts are urging the United Nations to take action in order to prevent the development of “killer robots”.In a letter to the organisation, artificial intelligence (AI) leaders, including billionaire Elon Musk, warn of “a third revolution in warfare”. View Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: BBC.co.uk | Guideline | ★★★★ | |
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2017-08-21 09:58:22 | Blockchain could have solved Dutch egg supply chain worries (lien direct) | As many as 15 European countries have been affected by the Dutch egg contamination, as well as others around the world. The Food Standard Authority (FSA)'s investigation is currently working hard to remove all contaminated products from UK supermarkets. Initially thought to have affected 21,000 eggs, this figure has now ballooned to over 700,000. View Full Story ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-21 09:39:49 | Fujitsu\'s Australian cloud suffers storage crash, outage (lien direct) | Fujitsu Australia has confirmed that its data centre in the Australian suburb of Homebush has experienced an outage.“A storage array in Fujitsu's Homebush data centre became unavailable at 9.24PM on Saturday night and has affected services to customers,†a spokesperson told The Register. “We are treating this matter as a major incident and we have activated ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-21 09:37:49 | Two-thirds of FTSE 350 board members lack cyber hack training (lien direct) | The majority of board members at Britain's biggest public companies have received no training in how to handle a cyber attack despite it rapidly rising up the business agenda, according to a new survey. Read Full Story ORIGINAL SOURCE: CityAM | |||
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2017-08-18 09:51:23 | Ransomware Attacks \'Double\' As Nation State Weapons Fall Into Hands Of Hackers (lien direct) | Security specialists Check Point has painted a fairly grim picture of the cyber security landscape in its latest 'Cyber Attack Trends: Mid-Year' report. It revealed that ransomware attacks have doubled in the first six months of 2017; adware is mutating; and because of leaks, nation-state cyber weapons and exploits are falling into the hands of ... | ★★★ | ||
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2017-08-18 09:49:58 | Independent inquiry called for in FCC\'s secretive cyberattack claims (lien direct) | The FCC's claim that its commenting system was attacked on the night of May 7 has been the subject of considerable controversy, but not because of the attack itself. The agency has been so reluctant to release any substantive details about the attack or the countermeasures it has taken since that Congress is calling for an independent investigation (PDF) ... | ★★ | ||
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2017-08-18 09:48:28 | China pumping MILLIONS into developing \'cyber army with world famous web security schools\' (lien direct) | CHINA aims to become a “big–power in cyberspace†by building an “internet army†after announcing plans to invest huge amounts in new security schools. The Cyberspace Administration of China and China's education ministry announced plans to “build four to six world-famous cyber-security schools in ten years [from 2017 to 2027]â€. A statement claimed select colleges ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-18 09:47:21 | US cops point at cell towers and say: Give us every phone number that\'s touched that mast (lien direct) | US telecoms giant Verizon says police are increasingly asking it to cough up massive dumps of cellphone data rather than individual records. This according to the latest Verizon US transparency report for the first half of the 2017 calendar year. The dossier tracks government requests for phone records both of individual customers and large groups. The latter ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-18 09:46:07 | Anonymous calls for Trump\'s impeachment, leaks private contact details of 22 GOP senators (lien direct) | Hacktivist collective Anonymous has reportedly leaked the private contact details of 22 GOP senators, in the wake of the Charlottesville violence and US President Donald Trump’s controversial response to the event. The operator of a Twitter account, allegedly connected to the hacktivist group, has claimed to have leaked the private phone numbers and email addresses of 22 Republican members ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-18 09:38:03 | Vehicle hack disables safety features on most modern cars (lien direct) | It has been discovered by security researchers that the majority of modern vehicles are at risk from a design vulnerability which could be potentially disabled by a hacker. The security flaw could allow an attacker to turn off the safety features, such as airbags, ABS brakes, and power steering; essentially any of the vehicles computerised ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-18 09:15:12 | UK CEOs see cyber security spend as a revenue opportunity (lien direct) | UK CEOs feel that investment in cyber security is a revenue opportunity rather than an expensive burden, according to a report by KPMG. As a part of KPMG's CEO Outlook 2017, 150 UK CEOs were asked about their investment plans for the future and the issues affecting their business. It found that 70 per ... | |||
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2017-08-18 09:09:51 | (Déjà vu) Top tips to protect your business from becoming a malware hub (lien direct) | Email is indisputably a critical enterprise communication tool essential for sending important documents quickly and efficiently between employees, managers, HR, finance, sales, legal, customers, supply chain and more. Unfortunately, organisations often do not understand that the file-types used every day to share important information – standard files like Word docs, Excel spreadsheets and PDFs – ... | |||
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2017-08-17 09:50:41 | Protect Your Privacy with Webcam Protection (lien direct) | Today's smart home is defined by the number of smart and internet-connected devices that work either together or individually to allow users to remotely control or automate various features for efficiency or convenience. The number of IoT devices per household has increased significantly over the past couple of years, reaching an estimated 11 smart devices/accessories ... | |||
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2017-08-17 09:35:35 | Attackers Use Pulse Wave DDoS to Pin Down Multiple Targets (lien direct) | New findings from Imperva Incapsula research published today, details the emergence of a new DDoS assault pattern, which has been named Pulse Wave.  According to lead researcher Igal Zeifman, “Pulse Wave DDoS represents a new attack methodology, made up of a series of short-lived pulses occurring in clockwork-like succession, which accounts for some of the most ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-08-17 09:29:31 | Hacker Whose Tools Were Used in DNC Hack Steps Forward (lien direct) | A Ukranian hacker called “Profexer” who built one of the tools used to penetrate the Democratic National Committee servers last year has turned himself in to authorities. According to a report today in the New York Times, the man, who first contacted Ukranian police earlier this year, claims he wrote a piece of software called the PAS ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-17 09:28:30 | \'Very weak\' passwords put NHS hospitals at hacking risk (lien direct) | NHS hospitals are at risk of further devastating cyber attacks because staff are using “very weak†passwords, a new report reveals. Health chiefs warned that one in four official user accounts granting access to sensitive patient data and vital systems are inadequately protected, while many organisations are failing to update their security software. Around 10 per ... | ★★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-17 09:26:03 | 200 accounts \'locked\': In Delhi\'s first WannaCry attack, publishing firm hit (lien direct) | After the WannaCry ransomware cyber attack spread like wildfire and paralysed computer systems across the world, isolated incidents were reported from Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Kerala and West Bengal. Now, the capital has seen its first ransomware cyber attack, with employees of Rachna Sagar Private Limited “locked†out of more than 200 computers. The cyber attack ... | Wannacry | ||
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2017-08-17 09:24:32 | HBO investigates hack of its social media accounts (lien direct) | HBO is reportedly investigating the hacking of its various social media accounts, including the official Facebook and Twitter accounts. The accounts were hacked by a hacker squad called OurMine Security Group on Wednesday, August 17. The hacker squad left few messages on all the hacked social media pages of Time Warner-owned premium cable network. “Hi, OurMine are ... | |||
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2017-08-17 09:18:55 | Cyberattack on Scottish parliament \'could last days\', MSPs warned (lien direct) | A cyberattack on the Scottish parliament’s IT systems could last several days, officials have warned. MSPs and staff were told some may be locked out of their email accounts after hackers launched a “brute force” cyberattack to crack passwords early on Tuesday. Parliament chief executive Sir Paul Grice said on Wednesday that Holyrood’s systems were ... | |||
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2017-08-17 09:10:45 | Veracode and DevOps.com Research Shows Formal Education Leaves Developers Without Necessary Skills to Succeed in DevSecOps World (lien direct) | New research shows that software developers are not receiving the training they need to be successful as DevOps becomes the prevalent approach to building and operating digital products and services. In today's application-centric economy that gap could have real impact on the productivity of businesses in every industry, as well as on the security and ... | |||
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2017-08-16 10:25:03 | Web application attacks accounted for 73% of all incidents says report (lien direct) | Web application attacks accounted for 73 percent of all incidents flagged in an 18-month evaluation period according to a new report from Alert Logic which also says that web application attacks affected 85 percent of all its customers, with injection-style attacks such as SQL injection the main culprit. The company’s 2017 Cloud Security Report is based on customer ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-16 10:24:00 | AP Moller-Maersk counts cost of cyber attack but swings to profit (lien direct) | AP Moller-Maersk said the Petya cyber attack had cost it $200m-$300m as the world's biggest container shipping line returned to profit, buoyed by relatively strong global trade. The Danish conglomerate said the majority of the impact from the cyber attack would be felt in the third quarter, due to lost revenues in July, after its ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-16 10:22:24 | Venezuela\'s public telcos collapse under cyber-attack (lien direct) | Fibre-based and mobile services delivered by Cantv and Movilnet in Venezuela have been switched off as a result of a continued and concerted cyber-attack. The attack, directed at Venezuela's public infrastructure, has been assumed by a group called The Binary Guardians and has not only affected telecom services, but has blocked many .ve-domain websites, including all the ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-16 10:21:05 | Scottish parliament hit by cyber-attack similar to Westminster assault (lien direct) | Hackers have mounted a “brute force†cyber-attack on the Scottish parliament's computer systems, weeks after a similar attack on email accounts at Westminster. MSPs and Holyrood staff were warned on Tuesday that hackers were attempting to access numerous email accounts by systematically and repeatedly trying to crack their passwords. Holyrood officials said they were not ... | |||
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2017-08-16 10:18:13 | Fostering flexible work for today\'s multi-generational workforce (lien direct) | Whether it's home-based workers or teams operating across disparate sites, many businesses are struggling to make the remote working vision a reality. Contrary to popular belief, our recent flexible working study revealed the differing preferences between the multi-generational workforce, with the younger generation preferring to work from the office rather than remotely. This was in clear ... | |||
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2017-08-16 10:08:24 | Gartner Says Worldwide Information Security Spending Will Grow 7 Per Cent to Reach $86.4 Billion in 2017 (lien direct) | Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach $86.4 billion in 2017, an increase of 7 per cent over 2016, with spending expected to grow to $93 billion in 2018, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc. Within the infrastructure protection segment, Gartner forecasts fast growth in the security testing market ... | |||
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2017-08-16 10:06:06 | Alert Logic Releases 2017 Cloud Security Report (lien direct) | Alert Logic, the leading provider of Security-as-a-Service solutions for the cloud, today announced the availability of its 2017 Cloud Security Report. The report analyses customer data from more than 3,800 Alert Logic cloud, on-premises and hybrid cloud customers over an 18 month period, from August 1, 2015 to January 31, 2017. Report findings are based ... | Guideline | ||
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2017-08-15 09:30:11 | Cyber-threats in university Clearing and how to overcome them (lien direct) | A Level results will be issued to thousands of students across the UK on Thursday 17 August.  For many, this is a time of celebration as they take up offers for the university or college of their choice. However, for those who have not received the results they need it can be a stressful time ... | |||
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2017-08-15 09:00:10 | World\'s Largest Nonprofit Association of Certified Cybersecurity Professionals Surpasses 125,000 Members (lien direct) | (ISC)² today announced its membership has surged past 125,000 certified cybersecurity professionals worldwide. As demand for skilled security professionals continues to grow exponentially, (ISC)2 certification and continuing education programs enable cybersecurity and IT security practitioners to prove their expertise, advance their careers and contribute to a more secure society. “We are extremely proud of ... | |||
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2017-08-15 08:53:48 | If Anonymous \'pwnd\' the Daily Stormer, they did a spectacularly awful job (lien direct) | Doubts have been cast over claims that hacktivists have taken control of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer. Elements of the loose hacker collective Anonymous supposedly took control of the site as a reprisal for the death of anti-racist protestor Heather Heyer after she was struck by a car during protests by white supremacists in Charlottesville, ... | |||
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2017-08-15 08:50:59 | US military spies: We\'ll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries (lien direct) | The US Defense Intelligence Agency has vowed to capture enemy malware, study and customize it, and then turn the software nasties on their creators. Speaking at the US Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) conference in Missouri on Monday, the head of the agency Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart told attendees that the US was ... | |||
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2017-08-15 08:49:10 | UK businesses “unprepared for a cyber shock†(lien direct) | Lockton report shows half of UK businesses expect to be entirely operational 48 hours after a large-scale cyber security breach. A report by Lockton has revealed that UK businesses are severely “unprepared for a cyber shockâ€. The broker found – in the study that polled 200 chief financial officers, chief risk officers and chief information officers as ... | |||
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2017-08-14 10:47:50 | A local securities firm has been hit by a cyberattack (lien direct) | Taipei-based securities firm Taishin had some unhappy customers this morning as its services were temporarily downed by a cyberattack - the second one this year. The DDoS attack targeted the electronic trading systems of Taishin as well as its subsidiary Ta Chong Securities, also putting the firm’s telephone trading service out of commission in the ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-14 10:40:34 | How DNA became the new hacking tool (lien direct) | In what could possibly be a sci-fi plot in a movie is now a reality, as researchers hack a computer using synthetic DNA. A research team at the University of Washington revealed hackers were able to encode malware into a short strand of DNA. They programmed the virus to launch on its own when run through the ... | |||
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2017-08-14 10:39:13 | Daily Stormer Hacked (lien direct) | Anonymous have taken over the world's most notorious Nazi website, following clashes with white nationalists over the weekend that left one anti-fascist protestor dead. A post on the site attributed to the hacking group said that the site was now under its control and that it would stop it posting “putrid hateâ€. It also suggested ... | |||
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2017-08-14 10:37:54 | #OpDomesticTerrorism: Anonymous shuts down Charlottesville city website with DDoS attack (lien direct) | The hacktivist collective Anonymous has reportedly claimed responsibility for shutting down the Charlottesville city website. The hacker group reportedly launched a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, shortly after a hit and run incident in the city, that claimed the life of 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injured at least 19 others. The DDoS attack, launched under a new banner, dubbed #OpDomesticTerrorism, ... | |||
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2017-08-14 10:35:39 | Cyber attacks on online retailers double in a year as hackers try to steal shoppers\' details (lien direct) | The numbers of online shops hit by serious losses of customer data has doubled in the past year as hackers try to plunder retails sites for valuable personal details, a law firm has warned. Customers are increasingly at risk as retailers amass ever growing collections of their shoppers' personal information. Online shopping, digital marketing and ... | |||
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2017-08-14 10:33:02 | Synopsys Fuzzing Report Identifies IoT and Industrial Control Systems Software as Most Vulnerable to Exploits (lien direct) | In the latest fuzzing report by Synopsys, Inc. it was found the overall average time to first failure (TTFF) - the first instance when a protocol crash is recorded - was 1.4 hours. In the case of more mature protocols, the length of time is in hours. But with less mature protocols, that time could ... | ★★★★ | ||
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2017-08-14 09:44:37 | Everton FC tackles data security in the cloud with Netskope Active Platform (lien direct) | Netskope, the leader in cloud security, today announced a deal with Everton FC to implement software which protects the Premier League club's confidential data in the cloud. The Netskope Active Platform analyses all cloud services – sanctioned and unsanctioned – for all employees (whether on premises or remote) to provide complete visibility into what ... | Guideline |
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