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Credit to Author: Sergio Moretto| Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 20:31:48 +0000
Machine safety is one of the core responsibilities of a machine builder. In fact, across most geographies, it is the machine builder who is held liable when machine safety systems… Read more »
The post Why Assuring Machine Safety Has Suddenly Gotten Easier for Machine Builders appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:02:22 +0000
The former Trump campaign chair keeps getting in trouble thanks at least in part to subpar digital security.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Angela McKay| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:00:12 +0000
Multi-stakeholder collaboration helps to build better security policies in the recently released Guide to Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy.
The post Guide to Developing a National Cybersecurity Strategy—a resource for policymakers to respond to cybersecurity challenges appeared first on Microsoft Secure.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 15:40:52 +0000
Experts discovered lots of interesting things in the code of North Korean antivirus SiliVaccine.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:25:00 -0800
Enterprise security professionals will be pleased to learn that it will soon be possible to enhance the already considerable device security of Apple’s iPhones with hardware-based physical authentication dongles using the Lightning port.
Announced at CES 2019, the key fits on a keyring and comes from the authorization experts at Yubico. The hardware connects to iOS systems using the Lightning connection and is also equipped with USB-C for Macs. This is quite a big deal.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 14:46:31 +0000
Microsoft on Tuesday released updates to fix roughly four dozen security issues with its Windows operating systems and related software. All things considered, this first Patch Tuesday of 2019 is fairly mild, bereft as it is of any new Adobe Flash updates or zero-day exploits. But there are a few spicy bits to keep in mind. Read on for the gory details.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800
It’s a few years after Y2K when the IT security team at this university gets a rude awakening, reports a pilot fish in the know.
“They discovered that persons unknown had hacked into a university server,” fish says. “It was being used to launch denial-of-service attacks against a victim somewhere outside the university.”
The team’s first job is finding the server — which turns out to be in the alumni office — and taking it offline.
Then they start digging into the security logs. That’s when they find out that the attackers have been making use of the server for more than a year.
And once they start checking on the IP addresses of whoever it is that has accessed the server, they discover it’s not just one or two hackers. It seems people from all over the world have been using this server to launch attacks.
Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800
Ok, so maybe blockchain isn’t ready yet to become the biggest new technology since the internet.
But the distributed ledger technology clearly made strides in 2018, when it was embraced by companies from Walmart to shipping bigwig Maersk to top tech venders like IBM, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft who see potential in blockchain-as-a-service. (Walmart’s vice president in charge of food safety, Frank Yiannas, compared his embrace of blockchain to a “religious conversaion.”)