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The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has crushed a cookie-related flaw in which sessions failed to close allowing the next user of a public computer to access tax records. The flaw reported to the office by Sydney Arduino tinkerer JP Liew occurs when tax payers obtain a PDF from the ATO and in doing so are directed away from the …

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  1. frank ly

    re. "... red and blue security teams."

    Can somebody explain what these teams are and do?

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    1. waldo kitty
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      Boffin

      Re: re. "... red and blue security teams."

      think capture the flag games which is basically what they are...

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_team

      https://www.sypriselectronics.com/information-security/cyber-security-solutions/penetration-testing/

      http://www.networkworld.com/article/2278686/lan-wan/red-team--blue-team--how-to-run-an-effective-simulation.html

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