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Month: May 2018

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The final compliance countdown: Are you ready for GDPR?

Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Blog Staff| Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 19:00:22 +0000

On May 25, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will replace the Data Protection Directive as the new standard on data privacy for all organizations that do business with European Union (EU) citizens.[1]When GDPR goes into effect, government agencies and organizations that control, maintain, or process information involving EU citizens will be required to comply

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Why Water Use is a Key Consideration When Cooling Your Data Center

Credit to Author: Maurizio Frizziero| Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 18:40:11 +0000

For years in data center circles we’ve been talking about Power Usage Effectiveness, or PUE. Largely lost in the discussion, however, is another factor that has taken on increased importance… Read more »

The post Why Water Use is a Key Consideration When Cooling Your Data Center appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

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Patch Tuesday problems, fixes — but no cause for immediate alarm

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 10:51:00 -0700

Results are starting to roll in about this month’s Patch Tuesday, and it’s quite a mixed bag. For those of you struggling with the new Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, there’s good news and bad news. The hand wringing about a new VBScript zero-day, thanks to our good old friend baked-in Internet Explorer, looks overblown for now. And if you can’t get RDP working because of “An authentication error has occurred” messages, you missed the memo.

Windows 10 version 1803

First, the good news. As I anticipated earlier this week, this month’s cumulative update for 1803 is a must-have, warts and all. The new build 17134.48 replaces the old 17134.1 (which went to those who installed 1803 directly or fell into the seeker trap) and the old 17134.5 (for those upgrading with the Windows Insider builds). As Susan Bradley explains, 17134.48 claims to fix both the Chrome and Cortana freeze, as well as a major VPN bug.

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Enhancing Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection with detonation-based heuristics and machine learning

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 16:00:09 +0000

Email, coupled with reliable social engineering techniques, continues to be one of the primary entry points for credential phishing, targeted attacks, and commodity malware like ransomware and, increasingly in the last few months, cryptocurrency miners. Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) uses a comprehensive and multi-layered solution to protect mailboxes, files, online storage, and applications

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Parenting in the Digital World: a review

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 15:00:00 +0000

Parents don’t just hand over the car keys to children who haven’t taken driver’s ed. Sadly, the same can’t be said about smartphones. This book by Clayton Cranford shows parents the importance of keeping their kids safe online—and just how to do it.

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The post Parenting in the Digital World: a review appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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CVE-2018-8174: Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – An advisory by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Prashant Kadam| Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 11:50:17 +0000

The recent zero-day vulnerability in Windows VBScript Engine (CVE-2018-8174), enables attackers to perform a remote code execution on targeted machines. Microsoft has released a security advisory CVE-2018-8174 on May 8, 2018, to address this issue. According to Microsoft, it impacts most of the Windows Operating Systems. Vulnerable versions Windows 7 x86 and x64 versions Windows…

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