Month: July 2017

ComputerWorldIndependent

Wasn't this supposed to speed things up?

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2017 03:00:00 -0700

IT pilot fish is moving on with his career, but before he changes employers, he comes up with an easier way for users to get on the company intranet.

“I wanted to relieve the staff of the need to memorize yet another username/password combination — or write it on a sticky note to be posted on the wall,” says fish.

“So I set up an interface that used Windows Active Directory for access authorization, with appropriate fallback in case the domain controller couldn’t be accessed. The whole thing worked like a dream.”

Fast forward a couple years: Fish is brought back in to add more capabilities to the Intranet that’s been faithfully chugging along since he left. But as fish starts on the new project, the IT director casually mentions that intranet logins have been running a lot slower. Could fish perhaps check into that too?

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FortinetSecurity

NSS Labs NGFW Report: Fortinet Receives 4th Consecutive Recommended Rating

Credit to Author: John Maddison| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:58:00 +0000

One of the biggest security challenges organizations face is sorting through solutions from literally hundreds of vendors in the IT market to find the one that is going to provide them with the best protection at a cost they can afford. Each of these vendors claims to solve critical security issues, and they use volumes of white papers and marketing campaigns to promote their solutions. Of course, proper security is essential. As networks continue to expand and become more complex, organizations are increasingly reliant on effective…

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ScadaICSSchneider

Prefabricated Modular Data Center Helps Israeli Medical Center Keep up with Promising Genome Research

Credit to Author: Steven Carlini| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 18:02:25 +0000

Genomics is a fascinating field of medical research that promises to fundamentally change the way medicine is practiced. The day is not far off when doctors will be able to… Read more »

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IndependentKrebs

How a Citadel Trojan Developer Got Busted

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:11:38 +0000

A U.S. District Court judge in Atlanta last week handed a five year prison sentence to Mark Vartanyan, a Russian hacker who helped develop and sell the once infamous and widespread Citadel banking trojan. This fact has been reported by countless media outlets, but far less well known is the fascinating backstory about how Vartanyan got caught.

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MalwareBytesSecurity

FBI: Smart toys could harm children’s privacy and physical safety

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:30:06 +0000

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has recently issued a Public Service Announcement (PSA), encouraging consumers to think twice before purchasing internet-connected toys.

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