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DROWN Attack (CVE-2016-0800), Turing Award and Leo’s Oscar

Cisco Backdoor Account & Other Critical Vulnerabilities

Hello, Very recently Cisco announced 3 “critical risk” and numerous other “high risk” vulnerabilities. One of those vulnerabilities affect IOS XE devices which come with a default pre-configured privileged account which if known could grant easy access to the device by an attacker. Some sources say that this made its way by mistake from testing environment...
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American University of Beirut: Digital transformation with the student at heart

American University of Beirut: Digital transformation with the student at heart

By DALE BENTON Through a five-year digital transformation plan, the American University of Beirut is redefining its entire IT infrastructure with the ultimate goal of enriching the lives of its students The role of the CIO is evolving. IT has traditionally been viewed as operating almost as a separate entity when placed within the wider context of...
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Security Alert: Processors Meltdown!

Security Alert: Processors Meltdown!

Hello, Recently multiple disclosed security vulnerabilities took the Internet by storm. Dubbed “Meldown” and “Spectre”, those vulnerabilities seem to affect numerous systems and processors including Intel, AMD, ARM; thus it has the potential to affect PCs, servers, networking equipment, mobile devices and even cloud. An attacker can exploit those vulnerabilities by running a special code locally...
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Wifi is no Longer Secure - WPA2 got KRACKed !

Wifi is no Longer Secure – WPA2 got KRACKed !

On October 16, 2017, Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of imec-DistriNet published a paper detailing their discovery of security weaknesses in WPA2. WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access II) is a widely used security protocol developed by the Wi-Fi Alliance for the purpose of  encrypting and securing the traffic on Wi-fi connections between the Wi-fi router and endpoints. WPA2 (and...
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Lebanon Smart City Experience

Lebanon Smart City Experience

On Saturday 16th of September, 2017, Ogero in collaboration with Data Consult  launched the first smart city in Lebanon at BeitMisk. This project has been initiated by Ogero a few months ago, as part of its nationwide digital strategy. One of the objectives Ogero is aspiring to achieve, is to build a nationwide Internet of Things...
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