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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:23:00 -0800

The U.S. Air Force (USAF) is planning to test a blockchain-based graph database that will allow it to share documents internally as well as throughout the various branches of the Department of Defense and allied governments.

The permissioned blockchain ledger comes from a small Winston-Salem, N.C. start-up, Fluree PBC, which announced the government contract this week. Fluree is working with Air Force’s Small Business Innovation Research AFWERX technology innovation program to launch a proof of concept of the distributed ledger technology (DLT) later this year.

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February 6, 2020 admin

After the Iowa Caucus Meltdown, New Hampshire Says It’s Ready

Credit to Author: Gilad Edelman| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 17:33:55 +0000

The nation’s first primary is proudly low-tech, but it’ll take more than paper ballots to defuse the disinformation threat.

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Donald Trump Now Has the Senate GOP’s Blessing to Undermine Democracy

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:55:06 +0000

After making it through a criminal investigation and political impeachment unscathed, Trump now has free rein to invite election interference and more.

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February 6, 2020 admin

Hackable Cisco Phones, a Locust Invasion, and More News

Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:42:57 +0000

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

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February 5, 2020 admin

Cisco Flaws Put Millions of Workplace Devices at Risk

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:56:40 +0000

Five vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol make it possible for a hacker to take over desk phones, routers, and more.

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The Iowa Caucus Meltdown, a Coronavirus Mask Shortage, and More News

Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:20:31 +0000

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

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It’s not too late to get an Extended Security Update license for Windows 7

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:42:00 -0800

Worried about the future of your Win7 machine? Welcome to the family.

Right now, we have a promise that Microsoft will fix the “Stretch” wallpaper bug it rolled out last month, and there’s some hope that it will fix the Internet Explorer JScript engine security hole CVE-2020-0674 noted last month in Security Advisory ADV200001. We don’t know how/when the fix(es) will be distributed, or if Microsoft will soften its “no free Win7 patches after January 14” edict in some other way.

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