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fromIrish Independent
1 week ago

New digital map looks at how people used Dublin's Grand Canal 100 years ago

A digital interactive map traces a 1,100km virtual Grand Canal boat journey, using historical sources to connect people with local heritage.
fromTheregister
7 months ago

Chinese gang used ArcGIS as a backdoor for a year

Researchers at ReliaQuest say that the espionage outfit, which Microsoft tracks as a China-based state-sponsored actor, modified a legitimate ArcGIS server object extension (SOE) to act as a web shell, giving them long-term, near-invisible access. By exploiting ArcGIS' extensibility features while avoiding traditional, signature-based malware, Flax Typhoon embedded itself so deeply that even restoring systems from backups simply reinstalled the implant.
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