It’s Time for IoT Security’s Next Big Step
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:00:00 +0000
Connected devices are more secure than ever. That’s still not nearly enough.
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Heads up: Microsoft is back to snooping with this month’s Win7 and 8.1 'security-only' patches
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 09:32:00 -0700
Two months ago, the July Win7 security-only patch was found to install telemetry software, triggered by newly installed scheduled tasks called ProgramDataUpdater, Microsoft Compatibility Appraiser, and AitAgent. As best I can tell, Microsoft never admitted that its security-only patch dropped a telemetry component.
The August security-only update didn’t include that bit of snooping, so it looked like the July snooping was a one-off aberration.
Are students prepared for real-world cyber curveballs?
Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:00:55 +0000
Are today’s students getting the preparation they need to do the cybersecurity work of tomorrow? Read the findings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CyberForce Competition.™
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Read MoreFive years later, Heartbleed vulnerability still unpatched
Credit to Author: Gilad Maayan| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 15:00:00 +0000
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| The Heartbleed vulnerability was discovered and fixed in 2014, yet today—five years later—there are still unpatched systems. Categories: Tags: cryptographyEKsexploit kitsexploitsheartbeat extensionheartbleedheartbleed vulnerabilityITIT teamsopen sourceOpenSSLSSLTSL |
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Read MoreKaspersky Incident Communications
Credit to Author: Denis Zenkin| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 11:00:31 +0000
In case of a cybersecurity incident, whom should you communicate with inside the company? Which channels should you use — and which ones should you avoid? And how should you react?
Read MoreTransatlantic Cable podcast, episode 109
Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:10:02 +0000
Jeff and Dave discuss headaches caused by Tesla’s app going down, YouTube violating child privacy laws, and more.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: Let’s get an expert opinion
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Card-reader door locks are installed at this pilot fish’s company, and she’s tasked with setting up the software, configuring the locks and assigning employee access and times.
A VP gives her a handwritten sheet of paper with the employee door access and times, reports fish. Then he promptly takes a one-week vacation.
“The day the system goes live, the employees are standing in front of me yelling because their cards won’t let them in the door they want to use. They now have to use the main door instead.
“The VP comes along hearing all the complaints, then starts yelling at me that this is not the way it should be set up.
“I pull out his handwritten instructions. He looks at it and says, ‘That’s not my handwriting!’”
Windows 10 1909: What's in it for enterprises?
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2019 14:51:00 -0700
This fall's update for Windows 10 may not include a raft of new features, but it does offer something even more important to enterprise IT: extended support that should make future upgrades easier to manage.
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