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Labor unions are suing the Trump administration in an attempt to stop the Elon Musk-led DOGE team from accessing private information at the Education and Treasury departments and the Office of Personnel Management.Why it matters: The American Federation of Teachers (AFT)-led lawsuit that was filed in federal court Monday alleges giving DOGE access to this…
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The Trump administration is being sued over its move to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), with unions representing workers in the lawsuit calling the action “unconstitutional and illegal.”The big picture: The move to place most of USAID’s global workforce on administrative leave by Friday night has “generated a global humanitarian crisis by…
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Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is aiming to be the first Republican in decades to sponsor major, pro-union labor reform, Axios has learned. Why it matters: GOP leaders see an opportunity for a new, working-class coalition, which includes more union outreach. It’s a major shift, and fault lines are already forming over President Trump’s pro-labor Cabinet…
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Caught in the digital crosshairs, financial institutions (including credit unions) stand on the front lines of the cybercrime battlefield. These organizations play a vital role in the daily operations of businesses and customers, processing vast amounts of personal and financial data that make them prime targets for cyber-attacks. Financial institutions rank as the second most…
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The Ivory Coast National Security Council announced the dissolution of student unions across the country on Thursday, including the Federation Student and School Association of Côte d’Ivoire (FESCI), over their alleged involvement in criminal activities including the killing of two students.
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A Private Set Union (PSU) allows two parties having sets $X$ and $Y$ to securely compute the union $X \cup Y$ while revealing no additional information. Recently, there have been proposed so-called shuffle-based PSU protocols due to Garimella et. al. (PKC’21) and Jia et. al. (USENIX’22). Except a few base oblivious transfers, those proposals are…
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Apple’s anti-union posturing is looking like quite the paper tiger: The iPhone goliath has reached an agreement with unionized retail workers in Oklahoma, marking the second time it has caved to organized labor after facing the prospect of a strike.
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Nigerian Minister of Information Mohammed Idris announced on Thursday that the Nigerian government and main labor unions have agreed on a new monthly minimum wage of 70,000 Naira ($44) after months of negotiations and threats of strikes. The agreed-upon amount has more than doubled the current minimum wage but is still six times lower than…
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Unions representing workers at Paris’ airports said Monday they had called for a strike the week before the Paris Olympics over a dispute about bonuses for staff.
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A UK federation of trades unions has published a bill designed to protect workers from “the risks and harms” of AI-powered decision-making in the workplace.
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Samsung Electronics has struck trouble at home, potentially threatening the supply of semiconductors and smartphones.
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The construction of a more cyber resilient European Union (EU) took a remarkable step forward this past week as negotiators from the European Parliament and the European Council reached a provisional agreement on the proposed Cyber Solidarity Act.
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency revealed that a U.S. state government agency had its network compromised due to a former employee’s administrative credentials that had been obtained from previous data breaches, SecurityWeek reports.
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Blog: How Tos American consumers have two clear yet vastly differing choices when it comes to banking. Many opt for a large-sized national or regional bank. Folks select this option for a variety of reasons, typically due to the vast services and ease of use these powerhouses provide. Roughly 60% of Americans count themselves as…
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PRESS RELEASE MISSOULA, Mont., Feb. 13, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — LMG Security, an internationally recognized cybersecurity consulting firm, has discovered three new critical software vulnerabilities that pose a significant threat to hundreds of organizations in the United States. Emily Gosney, a cybersecurity consultant at LMG Security, discovered these vulnerabilities in a web application that is primarily used by credit unions to manage…
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Where there is money, there are cybercriminals trying to take it. This is especially true for credit unions, which deal with both financial information and the personal identifying information (PII) of every member and connected institution. They are a digital vault of data and dollars and threat actors are all too ready to crack the…
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December 28, 2023 By: Tigran Safari, Client Experience Manager, Secured Managed Services
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Nearly 60 credit unions across the U.S. impacted by outages following a ransomware attack against credit union technology provider Ongoing Operations late last month were confirmed by the National Credit Union Administration to have resumed normal operations, reports The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future. “As of Dec. 12, and based on…
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Outages have been experienced by nearly 60 credit unions across the U.S. following a ransomware attack against a credit union technology firm.