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Human firewalls: The first line of defense against cyber threats in 2025

CIO Business Intelligence

A human firewall is a collective effort of individuals within an organization that fights and wards off cybersecurity threats (such as phishing and ransomware), especially ones that use social engineering. It also boasts a massive advantage over hardware and software firewalls: common sense.

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Dulling the impact of AI-fueled cyber threats with AI

CIO Business Intelligence

These days, digital spoofing, phishing attacks, and social engineering attempts are more convincing than ever due to bad actors refining their techniques and developing more sophisticated threats with AI. Businesses will need to invest in hardware and infrastructure that are optimized for AI and this may incur significant costs.

Dell 321
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Mastering technology modernization: 6 steps for building your road map

CIO Business Intelligence

The topics of technical debt recognition and technology modernization have become more important as the pace of technology change – first driven by social, mobile, analytics, and cloud (SMAC) and now driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – increases.

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Malware Response Checklist

Tech Republic Security

Whether an infection is the result of a disgruntled employee, hardware vulnerability, software-based threat, social engineering penetration, robotic attack or human error, all organizations must be prepared to immediately respond effectively to such an issue if the corresponding damage is to be minimized.

Malware 421
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No One Should Be Surprised About The Facebook, Inc. Lawsuit In The U.S.

Forrester IT

inclusive of Facebook app, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and its other apps, services, and hardware) is a social media monopoly. Today the US government and 40+ states filed a lawsuit claiming that Facebook, Inc. This US lawsuit was more a question of “when” and joins a roster of European lawsuits already in existence.

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Elon Musk stopped paying millions in server hardware bills after Twitter acquisition, new lawsuit claims

TechSpot

Infrastructure manufacturer Wiwynn has filed a lawsuit against X for $120 million in unpaid hardware bills. The Taiwanese company provided custom hardware solutions for the social network over an 8-year period under a "Master Purchase Agreement" signed with Twitter in September 2014. Read Entire Article

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Malware response checklist

Tech Republic Security

Whether an infection is the result of a disgruntled employee, hardware vulnerability, software-based threat, social engineering penetration, robotic attack or human error, all organizations must be prepared to immediately respond effectively to such an issue if the corresponding damage is to be minimized.

Malware 314