Month: February 2018

SecurityTrendMicro

This Week in Security News: Senate Hearings and Equifax Breaches

Credit to Author: Jon Clay ((Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 14:00:53 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, leaders of six security agencies testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the Equifax hack grew in severity, and hackers used the power of Machine Learning to spread…

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SecurityTrendMicro

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of February 12, 2018

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:00:28 +0000

Valentine’s Day was earlier this week, and there was so much love in the air. There was also a lot of love in the Trend Micro world as our teams worked diligently to make sure our customers were protected from this month’s bevy of critical vulnerabilities across several vendors. This week, we focus on Microsoft,…

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Microsoft's free analytics service sniffs out Meltdown, Spectre patch status

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:11:00 -0800

Microsoft’s free Windows Analytics service now scans enterprise Windows 7, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 PCs, and reports whether they’ve been updated to defend against potential attacks exploiting the Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities.

The new capabilities of Windows Analytics’ “Upgrade Readiness” were announced Tuesday by Terry Myerson, the top Windows executive at the company. Myerson called the vulnerabilities – found by Google security researchers and reported to vendors in mid-2017 – “a new challenge for all of us” because they were in the silicon, not in software.

“We have added new capabilities to our free Windows Analytics service to report the status for all the Windows devices that [IT professionals] manage,” Myerson wrote in a post to a company blog.

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ScadaICSSchneider

Maximizing Midstream Profits with OT IT Convergence

Credit to Author: Jeremy Kivi| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 11:08:35 +0000

Historically midstream oil and gas organizations have kept two critical functions within their businesses almost entirely separate – Information Technology and Operations Technology. But with the industrial Internet of Things… Read more »

The post Maximizing Midstream Profits with OT IT Convergence appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

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