The colder months are here, and many families in our community are struggling to stay warm.

Thank you for supporting our community—and please feel free to share the flyer or spread the word to friends, family, and coworkers who may want to participate! We invite you to stop by and drop off a coat at our office: South Jersey Techies 229 North Locust Ave, Marlton, NJ 08053

Get ready for a Spooktacular experience like no other!

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TECHIES (formally known as South Jersey Techies) is proud to share our next chapter as we expand into Eastern North Carolina — a place that holds deep personal roots for our founder.

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After a ProPublica investigation revealed how Microsoft’s “digital escort” tech support service could expose sensitive government data to cyberattacks, the company says China-based engineers will no longer provide assistance on DOD cloud services.

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Nation-state cyber threat groups and ransomware attackers are moving in to exploit a critical flaw found in the seemingly ubiquitous Apache Log4j open-source logging tool, as attacks spread just days after the vulnerability that could affect hundreds of millions of devices was made public late last week.

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Security information and event management (SIEM) is a critical enterprise technology that pulls data from IT and cybersecurity systems to assess threats and manage risks. SIEM facilitates real-time monitoring, compliance adherence, and identification of anomalous activities. 

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The US Department of Defense has banned technology vendors from using China-based personnel to maintain its cloud systems, following revelations that sensitive government data had been exposed to potential foreign interference.

The new directive comes after a ProPublica investigation uncovered how Microsoft relied on engineers based in China for nearly a decade to service Pentagon networks. Experts warn that this practice could have given Beijing unprecedented access to critical defense information.

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SonicWall has issued an urgent advisory encouraging customers to reset all login credentials after researchers discovered that configuration backup files from MySonicWall were inadvertently exposed on public storage.

These files contained encrypted passwords, pre-shared keys, and TLS certificates used by SonicOS appliances, creating the potential for threat actors to decrypt credentials and gain unauthorized access to organizational networks.

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Cornell University researchers have revealed that ChatGPT agents can be manipulated to bypass CAPTCHA protections and internal safety rules, raising serious concerns about the security of large language models (LLMs) in enterprise environments.

By using a technique known as prompt injection, the team demonstrated that even advanced anti-bot systems and AI guardrails can be circumvented when contextual manipulation is involved.

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Compliance audits by regulatory bodies—or worse, fines and penalties for non-compliance—can be difficult for a company.

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