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Seven Critical Vulnerabilities Discovered in Portainer
FortiGuard Labs uncovered several vulnerabilities in Portainer, and has been working with the Portainer team to address them. Learn more about each vulnerability in this technical advisory.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortinet/blog/threat-research/~4/lEt6aibW0kc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Norsk Hydro responds to ransomware attack with transparency
Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 21:00:57 +0000
Aluminum supplier Norsk Hydro was attacked by LockerGoga, a form of ransomware. Learn how the company recovered and got back to business as usual.
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Read MoreNuclear Bot Author Arrested in Sextortion Case
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 19:09:10 +0000
Last summer, a wave of sextortion emails began flooding inboxes around the world. The spammers behind this scheme claimed they’d hacked your computer and recorded videos of you watching porn, and promised to release the embarrassing footage to all your contacts unless a bitcoin demand was paid. Now, French authorities say they’ve charged two men they believe are responsible for masterminding this scam. One of them is a 21-year-old hacker interviewed by KrebsOnSecurity in 2017 who openly admitted to authoring a banking trojan called “Nuclear Bot.”
Read MoreToys “R” Us Is Back—Now With More Surveillance!
Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2019 12:00:00 +0000
Reports about the toy store using cameras to track shoppers caused an uproar, but the companies behind the tech insist their systems are trained to ignore kids.
Read MoreThe Edge Difference: How Data Center Service Models Will Transform
Credit to Author: Joseph Reele| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 16:00:00 +0000
Autonomous vehicles have become a de facto analogy for emerging technology. It’s easy to understand why driverless cars won’t be engineered like those meant for humans. Cue the comparison here…. Read more »
The post The Edge Difference: How Data Center Service Models Will Transform appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Hackers Could Use Smart Displays to Spy on Meetings
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2019 11:30:00 +0000
By exploiting flaws in popular video conferencing hardware from DTEN, attackers can monitor audio, capture slides—and take full control of devices.
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