July 2019 – Page 7 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Tony Hunt| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:00:06 +0000

In automotive manufacturing, electricity makes up the majority of total energy cost compared to natural gas, water and other purchased fuels. Electricity is crucial for important processes such as painting,… Read more »

The post New ways automakers are leveraging power monitoring to drive down manufacturing plant costs appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

ScadaICS Schneider

July 25, 2019 admin

Celebrating our Interns

Credit to Author: Employee Voices| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 10:00:19 +0000

Today is #NationalInternDay, and we want to celebrate and recognize some of our wonderful Schneider Electric interns! Check out our SE_Careers twitter and our Instagram throughout the day to see even more photos & stories. We… Read more »

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Security Wired

July 25, 2019 admin

Facebook’s Ex-Security Chief Details His ‘Observatory’ for Internet Abuse

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 09:00:00 +0000

Alex Stamos’ Stanford-based project will try to persuade tech firms to offer academics access to massive troves of user data.

Security Wired

July 25, 2019 admin

Robert Mueller’s Work Is Done. Now It’s Congress’s Turn

Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:57:20 +0000

In nearly six hours of testimony Wednesday, former special counsel Robert Mueller stuck to the facts.

Security Wired

July 25, 2019 admin

New York’s Revenge Porn Law Is a Flawed Step Forward

Credit to Author: Emma Grey Ellis| Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 21:10:47 +0000

All but four states in the US now have a revenge porn law on the books. But advocates say precious few get it right.

Independent Krebs

July 25, 2019 admin

The Unsexy Threat to Election Security

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 17:01:41 +0000

Much has been written about the need to further secure our elections, from ensuring the integrity of voting machines to combating fake news. But according to a report quietly issued by a California grand jury this week, more attention needs to be paid to securing social media and email accounts used by election officials at the state and local level.

MalwareBytes Security

July 25, 2019 admin

Changing California’s privacy law: A snapshot at the support and opposition

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:59:59 +0000

Before the California Senate returns from its summer recess, we look at the authors, supporters, opponents, and donors involved in an extended fight to change California’s privacy law, the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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Privacy

Tags: AB 1416 AB 1564 AB 25 AB 846 AB 873 ACLU of California amazon AT&T Autumn Burke Big Tech California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA deidentified Ed Chau EFF facebook Google Internet Association Jacqui Irwin Ken Cooley loyalty program Marc Berman microsoft personal information Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Senate Judiciary Committee Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson Technet

Microsoft Security

July 25, 2019 admin

New machine learning model sifts through the good to unearth the bad in evasive malware

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 16:30:55 +0000

Most machine learning models are trained on a mix of malicious and clean features. Attackers routinely try to throw these models off balance by stuffing clean features into malware. Monotonic models are resistant against adversarial attacks because they are trained differently: they only look for malicious features. The magic is this: Attackers can’t evade a monotonic model by adding clean features. To evade a monotonic model, an attacker would have to remove malicious features.

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