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(Microsoft) CVE-2022-26809 Windows RCE Vulnerability
msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26809 How could an attacker exploit the vulnerability? To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to send a specially crafted RPC call to an RPC host. This could result in remote code execution on the server side with the same permissions as the RPC service. msrc.microsoft.com CVE-2022-26809 msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-26809 krebsonsecurity.com/2022/04/microsoft-patch-tuesday-april-2022-edition/ Nine of the updates pushed …
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(RT) Putin’s Feb 21st Speech
Disclaimer: RT is funded in whole or in part by the Russian government. Wikipedia Matt’s Note: The claims made in this speech are heavily disputed. It is re-hosted here only for its historic value as a primary source Transcript via en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/67843 I consider it necessary today to speak again about the tragic events in Donbass and the key aspects of ensuring the security …
(NCSC) log4shell CVE-2021-44228
github.com/NCSC-NL/log4shell This repo contains operational information regarding the vulnerability in the Log4j logging library (CVE-2021-44228). For additional information see: NCSC-NL advisoryMITRE github.com/NCSC-NL/log4shell More: The Wall Street Journal: What Is the [log4shell] Vulnerability? thenewstack.io/log4shell-we-are-in-so-much-trouble As Bad as It Gets So how bad is Log4Shell really? As bad as it gets. According to the National Vulnerability Database …
(Rush Doshi) The Long Game
rushdoshi.com For more than a century, no US adversary or coalition of adversaries not Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union has ever reached sixty percent of US GDP. China is the sole exception, and it is fast emerging into a global superpower that could rival, if not eclipse, the United States. What does …
(Lina M. Khan) Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox
Lina Khan is a noted academic and legal scholar specializing in antitrust and competition law in the United States. Ms. Khan was named chair to the Federal Trade Commission in an unexpected move by the Biden administration, which speculators believe may implicate pending antitrust enforcement policy. She was confirmed to the seat on Tuesday, June …
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(Nassim Nicholas Taleb) Bitcoin, Currencies, and Fragility
Matt’s Note: Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a noted author, mathematical statistician, and financial risk analyst most famous for popularizing the term Black Swan. He is also known for having articulated an intuitive and mathematical approach to understanding how uncertainty and randomness impact people’s lives. (I’ll read his books eventually, I swear) fooledbyrandomnessdotcom.wordpress.com In its current …
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(Martin Feldstein) Inflation and the Stock Market
ssrn.com/abstract=253123 This paper explains why the level of share prices has failed to rise during a decade of substantial inflation. Instead, the share value per dollar of real pretax earnings fell from 10.82 in 1967 to 6.65 in 1976. The analysis here shows that the inverse relation between higher inflation and lower share prices during …
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(The Wall Street Journal) Every Company Is Now a Tech Company
wsj.com/articles/every-company-is-now-a-tech-company (+) There was a time when the primary role of leaders at most companies was management. The technology required to do the work of a company could be bought or siloed in an “IT department,” treated more as a cost center than a source of competitive advantage. But now we’ve entered a period of …
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(Bill Gates) Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?
nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2003762 New England Journal of Medicine Publication Date: February 28, 2020 In any crisis, leaders have two equally important responsibilities: solve the immediate problem and keep it from happening again. The Covid-19 pandemic is a case in point. We need to save lives now while also improving the way we respond to outbreaks in general. …
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