Exploring New Certification Tests and the Cultural Impact of AI

Google and Mozilla patch nearly two dozen security flaws. The UK’s Royal Mail Group sees 144GB of data stolen and leaked. A bizarre campaign looks to recruit cybersecurity professionals to hack Chinese websites. PostgreSQL servers with weak credentials have been compromised for cryptojacking. Google Cloud patches a vulnerability affecting its Cloud Run platform. Oracle faces a class-action lawsuit over alleged cloud services data breaches. CISA releases ICS advisories detailing vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation and Hitachi Energy products. General Paul Nakasone offers a candid assessment of America’s evolving cyber threats. On today’s CertByte segment,  a look at the Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies exam. Are AI LLMs more like minds or mirrors?

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CertByte Segment

Welcome to CertByte! On this bi-weekly segment hosted by Chris Hare, a content developer and project management specialist at N2K, we share practice questions from N2K’s suite of industry-leading certification resources, this week, Chris is joined by Troy McMillan to break down a question targeting the Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (350-401 ENCOR) v1.1 exam. Today’s question comes from N2K’s Cisco CCNP Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies ENCOR (350-401) Practice Test.

The ENCOR exam enables candidates to earn the Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core certification, which can also be used to meet exam requirements for several other Cisco certifications.

Have a question that you’d like to see covered? Email us at certbyte@n2k.com. If you're studying for a certification exam, check out N2K’s full exam prep library of certification practice tests, practice labs, and training courses by visiting our website at n2k.com/certify.To get the full news to knowledge experience, learn more about our N2K Pro subscription at https://thecyberwire.com/pro. 

Please note: The questions and answers provided here, and on our site, are not actual current or prior questions and answers from these certification publishers or providers.

Additional source: https://www.cisco.com/site/us/en/learn/training-certifications/exams/encor.html  

Selected Reading

Chrome 135, Firefox 137 Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities (SecurityWeek)

Royal Mail Group Loses 144GB to Infostealers: Same Samsung Hacker, Same 2021 Infostealer Log (Infostealers)

Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in bizarre hacking campaign (TechCrunch)

Ongoing cryptomining campaign hits over 1.5K PostgreSQL servers (SC Media)

ImageRunner Flaw Exposed Sensitive Information in Google Cloud (SecurityWeek)

Google Brings End-to-End Encrypted Emails to All Enterprise Gmail Users (SecurityWeek)

Oracle now faces class action amid alleged data breaches (The Register)

CISA Releases Two ICS Advisories for Vulnerabilities, & Exploits Surrounding ICS (Cyber Security News)

Exclusive: Gen. Paul Nakasone says China is now our biggest cyber threat (The Record)

Large AI models are cultural and social technologies (Science)

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