Improving Vehicle Security

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 13:00:31 +0000

We have been investing in IoT Security for many years now, both in researching many of the challenges we’re seeing within IoT infrastructure and device security, to developing solutions that protect against threats targeting IoT and IIoT devices. Today we announced an alliance with Mentor that looks to improve the security of connected vehicles by…

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Get November Windows and Office updates installed — carefully

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 04:23:00 -0800

The list of complaints about this month’s patches goes on forever. I covered the high points a couple of days ago. We’ve seen people who are running Win10 Creators Update and who specifically said they didn’t want to upgrade to Fall Creators Update get pushed into an upgrade anyway. Those using Epson dot matrix or POS printers lost them for a couple of weeks. Add to that a heaping handful of hooey and there were enough problems to keep most Windows customers shaking their heads. Or quaking in their boots.

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Three Reasons Implementing the IIoT in Food and Beverage is Simple

Credit to Author: Keith Chambers| Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 06:30:02 +0000

In previous posts I’ve covered the benefits the IIoT offers in food and beverage for both companies and consumers. But one thing we haven’t discussed is how easy it can… Read more »

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Persistent drive-by cryptomining coming to a browser near you

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 18:00:10 +0000

If you think closing your browser window to leave a site that runs a cryptominer will stop the mining process, think again. Persistent drive-by cryptomining has arrived.

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Apple apologizes, issues Mac login security patch

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2017 09:33:00 -0800

With great apology, Apple has rushed to respond to the appalling macOS High Sierra security flaw, issuing a software update that has been made immediately available for download and will be automatically installed in existing Macs.

‘We greatly regret’

Apple has shared the following statement:

“Security is a top priority for every Apple product, and regrettably we stumbled with this release of macOS.

“When our security engineers became aware of the issue Tuesday afternoon, we immediately began working on an update that closes the security hole. This morning, as of 8:00 a.m., the update is available for download, and starting later today it will be automatically installed on all systems running the latest version (10.13.1) of macOS High Sierra. 

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