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The Hacker News

North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and Sales

Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology (IT) sector, with recent investigations identifying suspected workers employed in sales and marketing and the medical profession. The ongoing insider threat is part of what has been described as the IT worker scheme,

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AWS Security Blog

Automate IAM Identity Center governance with continuous discovery and reporting

AWS IAM Identity Center integrates with external identity provider (IdP) to provide customers with a centralized authentication and authorization solution for AWS resources across AWS Organizations. AWS continues to invest into IAM Identity Center with a growing number of AWS services that natively integrate with IAM Identity Center. As your AWS organization scales, maintaining visibility […]

Advanced (300)AWS IAM Identity CenterSecurity, Identity, & Compliance
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The Verge Tech

Car owners want tech they can ignore

Automakers keep shoving more tech into their cars, despite evidence that consumers are increasingly fed up with huge screens and glitchy software. In fact, the features that car owners appreciate the most happen to be the ones they barely notice, according to the latest tech survey from JD Power. The consumer research firm surveyed 68,084 owners of new 2026 model-year vehicles after 90 days of ownership. The survey touched on 40 automotive technologies covering comfort and convenience; connecte

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DZone

Securing Database Connections With Mutual TLS

Stolen credentials served as the entry point in 22% of breaches last year, and in attacks on basic web applications that figure climbs to 88%. Those numbers describe a password problem, and databases sit at the end of nearly every attack path.  A username and password prove nothing about the machine presenting them. Mutual TLS closes that gap by requiring both sides of a connection to present certificates and prove who they are before a single query runs.

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The Verge Tech

Phil Schiller is leaving his biggest jobs at Apple

Longtime Apple executive Phil Schiller is stepping down from his role as the head of the App Store and Apple events, according to a report from Bloomberg. Following the change, Schiller will keep his Apple Fellow title and continue "working on unspecified initiatives," Bloomberg reports. Schiller initially joined Apple in 1987 and became the company's head of marketing in 1997. He helped launch the App Store alongside Steve Jobs in 2008, but only started heading up the store in 2015. Over the ye

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