Comcast, Goldman Sachs Resume PAC Giving to Republican Election Objectors

WASHINGTON—Political action committees for

Comcast Corp.

and

Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

have resumed giving money to one or more of the 147 Republican lawmakers who voted to object to the certification of President Biden’s election after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot by supporters of former GOP President

Donald Trump,

new filings show.

The two companies were among dozens that announced in the days after the riot that they would pause or review their political donations, decisions that in some cases drew pushback from lawmakers.

At that time, Comcast announced it would suspend donations to the election objectors. Goldman Sachs had said it would stop all political giving as it reviewed its donation criteria. At the time, Goldman Sachs planned to closely examine the records of those who tried to obstruct the results of the election, a person familiar with the matter said then.

Representatives for Comcast didn’t respond to emails

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Kudlow: I’m sticking with Joe Manchin

We begin tonight with, “Save America, kill the bill.” 

One of those thumb-sucking news stories planted by progressive lefties to a Wall Street Journal reporter suggesting that the radicals were somehow willing to negotiate with Joe Manchin and Manchin was somehow willing to play.  

As I say, it was a silly story with no basis in fact. The Washington Times had a much more accurate story that suggested Manchin is not negotiating with anybody on big government socialism, sometimes called “Build Back Better” or “Build Back Smaller” or even “Build Back Chunkier”…but then the King himself, Joe Manchin, put an end to all of it today, which is why we love him. He’s been incredibly consistent. 

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Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) speaks to reporters before a caucus meeting

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How A Highly-Ranked Amazon Store Transitioned From A Two-Man Business To Hiring Its First Employees

Sometimes as a one- or two-person business grows and has the opportunity to serve more customers, it makes sense to add traditional employees. In some cases, it’s more cost-effective than working with contractors. It might make sense to pay a talented graphic designer $150 an hour for a ten-hour project but if you need the same designer for forty hours a week for an indefinite period, you’ll probably be able to negotiate a discount in exchange for giving the designer the certainty of a steady income. 

More important, if you’re going after big projects or orders or expanding your business, you need to know that you can deliver what you promised. Having staff can ensure that you do. “Going from solo entrepreneur to building a team around you and scaling is heavily dependent on the ability to hire more people and build out a sufficient team,” says Tal Masica, 32,

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Beware of phony forms when signing up for your free COVID-19 test

U.S. households can now request free at-home COVID-19 test kits through a new Biden administration program. But when the government rolls out big initiatives, such as the stimulus checks, scammers typically find ways to take advantage. This time, watch out for lookalike websites when requesting your tests. These scam sites may ask for payment or personal information, such as your Social Security number.

How the scam may work

You hear about the free COVID-19 tests and do a search for it online. Or you see a post or ad on social media or receive an unsolicited email or text. These communications urge you to request your free tests immediately by clicking on a link.

You follow the link to a website that looks official at first glance. It may have the United States Postal Service (USPS) logo, just like the real website. It also has a form to request

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PDF Generator’s Eternal Bond with SSRF

As part of the Application Security Assessment, we have come across the vulnerability Server Side Request Forgery (SSRF) using HTML Injection, via PDF and image generator.

As the vulnerability name suggests, an adversary forces a vulnerable web server to access either internal or external resources, that it has access to, such as retrieving local files, network scanning, etc.

First things First …

Let’s understand the functionality that led to SSRF. There is a module for ID card generation that takes user input such as company name, employee name, etc., and the form can be downloaded as pdf or images. So the first thing that comes to mind, is to check if the input validation is in place, and how the input gets rendered in pdf or image.

We started with basic HTML payloads and checked if we were able to render the same in PDF and image form. Since there

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