Month: July 2017

ScadaICSSchneider

How New Availability Expectations Change the Way Data Centers are Managed and Operated

Credit to Author: Kim Povlsen| Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 15:19:09 +0000

According to The Atlantic’s trilogy on household spending, by 1990, at least 90% of US households had electricity, a stove, car, fridge, clothes, air conditioning, color TV, microwave and a… Read more »

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The real problem with ransomware

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 14:00:36 +0000

Ransomware is an extremely serious problem and it’s quickly getting worse. The primary impact of downtime for your company is not the ransom that is being demanded of you, but instead, the real cost of ransomware is the downtime it will cause.

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IndependentKrebs

Gas Pump Skimmer Sends Card Data Via Text

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2017 11:08:59 +0000

Skimming devices that crooks install inside fuel station gas pumps frequently rely on an embedded Bluetooth component allowing thieves to collect stolen credit card data from the pumps wirelessly with any mobile device. The downside of this approach is that Bluetooth-based skimmers can be detected by anyone else with a mobile device. Now, investigators in the New York say they are starting to see pump skimmers that use cannibalized cell phone components to send stolen card data via text message.

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