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Month: August 2019

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Who Owns Your Wireless Service? Crooks Do.

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 22:43:58 +0000

Incessantly annoying and fraudulent robocalls. Corrupt wireless company employees taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to unlock and hijack mobile phone service. Wireless providers selling real-time customer location data, despite repeated promises to the contrary. A noticeable uptick in SIM-swapping attacks that lead to multi-million dollar cyberheists. If you are somehow under the impression that you — the customer — are in control over the security, privacy and integrity of your mobile phone service, think again. And you’d be forgiven if you assumed the major wireless carriers or federal regulators had their hands firmly on the wheel.

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A case study in industry collaboration: Poisoned RDP vulnerability disclosure and response

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 23:50:25 +0000

Through a cross-company, cross-continent collaboration, we discovered a vulnerability, secured customers, and developed fix, all while learning important lessons that we can share with the industry.

The post A case study in industry collaboration: Poisoned RDP vulnerability disclosure and response appeared first on Microsoft Security.

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Microsoft relaxes telemetry rule for PCs managed with Windows Update for Business

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:12:00 -0700

Microsoft has quietly relaxed a rule that prevented privacy-first organizations from managing the Windows Update for Business (WUfB) service using group policies.

With Windows 10 1903, aka “Windows 10 May 2019 Update,” which debuted in late May, organizations no longer are required to set the “diagnostic data level” for their devices to “Basic” or higher.

That diagnostic data level is a multi-step categorization of what Microsoft pulls from Windows devices and sends to its own servers. Also dubbed “telemetry,” the data harvesting is used by Microsoft for a range of tasks, notably deciding when a specific PC receives a feature upgrade.

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Why Electric Vehicles and New Mobility Services Are Driving the Need for Industrial Edge Data Centers

Credit to Author: Paolo Colombo| Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 17:00:00 +0000

In a recent post I wrote about how a couple of trends in the automotive industry are driving the need for manufacturers to invest in industrial edge data centers. But… Read more »

The post Why Electric Vehicles and New Mobility Services Are Driving the Need for Industrial Edge Data Centers appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

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