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Data center provider fakes Tier 4 data center certificate to bag $11M SEC deal

CIO

Another news report dated 2016 shows Jain as the Founder and CEO of AiNET, which “designs, constructs, operates, and supports Internet data centers, optical fiber networks, and easy-to-understand cloud solutions. The certification authenticity forms a smaller part of overall final decision-making, said Gupta.

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Smallstep takes big step toward authenticating machine-to-machine communications

TechCrunch

The central issue is that when there are no humans involved, how do you authenticate the hand-off between machines to ensure it’s going to the right place? The company launched in 2016 and launched their first open source product a couple of years ago. “Fundamentally, identity in distributed systems is an unsolved problem.

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Repair to “Using OAuth for a simple command line script to access Google's data”

Martin Fowler

Since I had difficulty puzzling out the limited documentation, particularly on the authentication and authorization aspects, I wrote a short article to capture what I'd learned. Google updated its libraries in 2016, breaking my scripts. In 2015, I wrote a command line script to get some data from YouTube.

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3 Ways to Discover Your Authentic Leadership Style

CIO

Here, I’ll share a few tips to help you uncover your authentic leadership style. If you can answer these questions, you’ll be on your way to uncovering your authentic style. And it creates a positive feedback loop, where your honesty helps others feel safe being their authentic selves, too. What are your values? IT Leadership

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StockX raises $275M Series E, valuing the retailer at $2.8B

TechCrunch

Since launching in 2016, the company recorded sales in 200 countries through 13 million transactions — 50% of those coming within the last 12 months. The company opened new authentication facilities in 2020 resulting in a 50% increase of the company’s global footprint. Inside StockX’s authentication center.

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There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security

Coding Horror

For proof of that, you need look no further than this single email that was sent March 19th, 2016. One 2008 staffer was also hired for the 2016 political campaign. Work emails were protected by two-factor authentication, a technique that uses a second passcode to keep accounts secure. If it's SMS, it's not secure, period.

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Microsoft’s November 2024 Patch Tuesday Addresses 87 CVEs (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039)

Tenable

Successful exploitation would lead to the unauthorized disclosure of a user’s NTLMv2 hash, which an attacker could then use to authenticate to the system as the user. Important CVE-2024-49040 | Microsoft Exchange Server Spoofing Vulnerability CVE-2024-49040 is a spoofing vulnerability affecting Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 and 2019.

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