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‘Van der Valk’ Season 2 Episode 2 Recap: La donna è mobile

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Ok so: last week we got our gang back together to solve a super creepy serial killer case, all while watching our pal Euro Cash make leaps and bounds in his personal growth. This week seems to be off to a decidedly more sparkly start, with a mysterious person examining a honkin’ big diamond. And lest you think this is some kind of romantic situation, in the background, we pan out to reveal… a very dead body. Yikes!

Meanwhile, our favorite goth besties “enjoy” a night on the town (at least as much as Euro Cash appears to enjoy anything).

Euro Cash: Check it out: I got Sniffer some wildly fancy dog treats!
Hassell: Yeah, whatever man: I have dirt. Big Cheese knows that Clooves lies about taking care of his mum! Doesn’t that bug you?
Euro Cash: I’m trying to be less bothered in general. What, are you annoyed?
Hassell: YEAH BUDDY. In that vein: check out this interaction at the bar! Why do men keep flirting when they don’t stand a chance?
Euro Cash: No clue. I never flirt with anyone, beautiful women just appear on my boat. My guess is that a lot of guys don’t like to admit defeat.
Hassell: Well that lady isn’t going home with those dudes, but I might be in luck here.

While she gets her flirt on, elsewhere in the city, a man with absolutely unhinged-big glasses mixes together blood and what looks like ashes, then pours the paste into a heart shaped cutout in a diamond. Truly bizarre; can’t wait to find out wtf is going on here.

Back at the bar, Euro Cash is about to absent himself so Hassell can capitalize on her flirting when he’s backed into a corner by Lena. Folks, he doesn’t play it even a little bit cool, and stammers over the introduction.

Hassell: LMAO, my guy, disaster. Nice to meet you, Lena, this will be fun.
Euro Cash: Well, I’ll just get my dog treats and we can go! BYE!

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FreightWaves LIVE recap: Cybersecurity lessons after the Colonial ransomware attack

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This fireside chat recap is from Day 1 of FreightWaves LIVE @HOME.

FIRESIDE CHAT TOPIC: The importance of cybersecurity in the age of ransomware attacks

DETAILS: The recent cyberattack on Colonial Pipeline laid bare the risk posed by ransomware attacks. GlobalTranz Chief Technology Officer Russ Felker talks to FreightWaves reporter Nate Tabak about how transportation and logistics companies can beef up their cybersecurity.

SPEAKER: Felker is the chief technology officer at GlobalTranz, a leading third-party logistics provider.

BIO: Felker oversees technology operations, including cybersecurity, at GlobalTranz. He has over 25 years of experience in technology and product development. Before joining GlobalTranz in 2019, he advised private equity firms on technology-related mergers and acquisitions. 

KEY QUOTES FROM FELKER:

“Whether you want to call it ‘Groundhog Day’ or ‘Edge of Tomorrow,’ We seem to be seeing [ransomware attacks] happen again and again and again.”

‘They’re not necessarily going through and finding the hardest way in. They’re looking across a slew of options and looking for the best or easiest way. And unfortunately, many times they find that.”

“You don’t start by putting in these huge intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems and get a managed service provider to come in and monitor your network 24/7. When you’re small … you’ve got to start at the simplest points.”

“The level of complexity of many company networks — and the systems that ride on those networks, and the interaction between those systems and the ways in which you need to ensure communication between different systems to the outside world — opens us up to not being able to track every single instance of a potential threat point.”

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Accelerating DevOps with Autonomous Security Observability: Webinar Recap

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Contrast and NowSecure Discuss Application Security Challenges and Best Practices

In a recent webinar, “Accelerating DevOps with Autonomous Security Observability,” Brian Reed, chief mobility officer of NowSecure, spoke with Jeff Williams, co-founder and CTO at Contrast Security, on how autonomous security can power DevOps teams and take continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to the next level. I highly recommend listening to the full webinar—it has many insights both for developers and security teams. In the following, I will tease out the highlights of their conversation and extract some key takeaways.

While Contrast focuses on application security for web applications, NowSecure specializes in protecting apps that run on mobile devices. In this conversation, Brian and Jeff discuss the unique challenges of mobile apps and their web-based back ends.

Background: Mobile App Security Status Quo

Brian, who has been working with mobile apps for 15 years, spends a lot of time talking to customers about mobile technology’s role in their digital transformations. He laments what he sees as a mismatch between the huge investment in securing software and the less-than-stellar security outcomes. For example, organizations spent $3.2 billion on application security in 2020 and are projected to spend $4.5 billion in 2024 (according to this Gartner report) and yet …

  • 85% of mobile apps have security risks
  • 70% of mobile apps leak personal data in violation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
  • Only 9% of organizations are able to automate at least 75% of their test cases 

Jeff echoes those sentiments when he talks about web applications. Scanning the data from the tens of thousands of applications monitored by the Contrast Security Platform, Jeff found that almost all of them (96%) have at least one vulnerability; the average is 35 per web application! Vulnerabilities come from both custom and open-source code. Some of the latest research from Contrast Labs confirms his assertion. A few highlights include:

Takeaway: Vulnerabilities put applications at risk; few are entirely safe.  

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