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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700

It’s 1977, and this pilot fish’s company is moving to a new data center. “The old facility was in the basement of the headquarters building,” says fish. “Access was via an ancient magnetic strip reader with no special capabilities. You either got in or you didn’t.

The new facility has state-of-the-art card readers, supported by a small midrange system. It has lots of capabilities — which can be a bit of trouble when you have a security department that’s paranoid about access to the facility.

And trouble does arrive, about a month after the move to the new building, when the security department programs the system to allow admission only during scheduled working hours.

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Independent Krebs

September 18, 2019 admin

Before He Spammed You, this Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:53:16 +0000

A reader forwarded what he briefly imagined might be a bold, if potentially costly, innovation on the old Nigerian prince scam that asks for help squirreling away millions in unclaimed fortune: it was sent via the U.S. Postal Service, with a postmarked stamp and everything. In truth these “advance fee” or “419” scams- – so-called because they violate section 419 of the criminal code of Nigeria where many such lures originate — predate email and have circulated via postal mail in various forms and countries over the years.

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September 18, 2019 admin

Back to the Basics: Data Center Capacity Planning Done Right

Credit to Author: Wendy Torell| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:58:00 +0000

The lifetime of a typical data center facility will span several generations of IT equipment. Therefore, planning – or lack of planning – can have a big impact on the… Read more »

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September 18, 2019 admin

Business Transformation in the New Digital Industrial Economy

Credit to Author: Sophie Borgne| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 19:01:44 +0000

During Industry 4.0, or the Fourth Industrial Revolution as we often call it, companies who rethink the way they do business and how they make money are ones who will… Read more »

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Security Wired

September 18, 2019 admin

Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker’s Buck

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:00:00 +0000

By exploiting the WS-Discovery protocol, a new breed of DDoS attack can get a huge rate of return.

Security Wired

September 18, 2019 admin

A Password-Exposing Bug Was Purged From LastPass

Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 21:57:51 +0000

Google Project Zero found and reported a flaw in the widely used password manager.

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September 18, 2019 admin

International students in UK targeted by visa scammers

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:49:40 +0000

Visa scammers are at it again, this time targeting Chinese international students in the UK. Learn how these scams work in order to steer clear, and advise others to do the same.

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Throwback Thursday: Ultimatum

Before He Spammed You, this Sly Prince Stalked Your Mailbox

Business Transformation in the New Digital Industrial Economy

Clever New DDoS Attack Gets a Lot of Bang for a Hacker’s Buck

A Password-Exposing Bug Was Purged From LastPass

International students in UK targeted by visa scammers