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Higher Education: Critical Infrastructure and the Dark Cloud of Cyber Threats

Credit to Author: Susan Biddle| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:29:00 +0000

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has identified 16 sectors that have been determined to be designated as critical infrastructure due to the debilitating effect on security, national economic security, national public health or safety, or any combination that would result from any of these sectors being compromised. Included in this list of 16 is the Government Facilities Sector, which covers, “a wide variety of buildings, located in the United States and overseas, that are owned or leased by federal, state, local, and tribal governments.”…

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Rogue cell phone surveillance gives rise to mobile threat defense

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 03:01:00 -0700

Researchers have created a device using off-the-shelf components that can sniff out controversial cell phone surveillance devices, known as IMSI-catchers or StingRays, used by federal and state law enforcement as well as hackers.

The International Mobile Subscriber Identity-catchers have not only been used to locate mobile devices but also to sometimes eavesdrop on users, send spam or upload malware, according to University of Washington (UW) security researchers.

“The threats remain the same when looking at enterprises: tracking and, under certain circumstances, eavesdropping are possible through this attack,” said Dionisio Zumerle, a Gartner research director for Mobile Security. “The attack requires technical expertise and equipment that was once hard to find; today it is easier and that is the main source of concern.”

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Redefining Efficiencies for Downsized, On-premise Enterprise Data Centers

Credit to Author: Steven Carlini| Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:42:00 +0000

Over the last five years, three major transformations have rocked the data center industry. These transformations have occurred so quickly that many data center owners have been caught flat-footed, uncertain… Read more »

The post Redefining Efficiencies for Downsized, On-premise Enterprise Data Centers appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

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