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Credit to Author: Pascal Lepretre| Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:00:27 +0000

The first post in this series explained why following IEC 61439 ensures quality switchboards, panels and assemblies. In short, adhering to the standard means that everything in an assembly works… Read more »

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MalwareBytes Security

August 27, 2018 admin

A week in security (August 20 – 26)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:06:17 +0000

A roundup of the security news from August 20 – 26, including a look at insider threats, several breaches, and what tech giants Google and Facebook are doing about their privacy issues.

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Kaspersky Security

August 27, 2018 admin

Man-in-the-Disk: A new and dangerous way to hack Android

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 16:53:03 +0000

How a seemingly harmless Android application can infect your smartphone using shared external storage.

Kaspersky Security

August 27, 2018 admin

A cryptocurrency exchange hack with a North Korean accent

Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:34:24 +0000

The infamous Lazarus group’s newest campaign is really hard to detect. Bonus: How cryptocurrencies, cybercriminals, and ramen noodles are connected.

QuickHeal Security

August 27, 2018 admin

Be aware! Hiddad Malware present on Google Play Store.

Credit to Author: Rupali Parate| Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 13:43:48 +0000

Quick Heal Security Lab has spotted a couple of applications on play store which hide themselves after installation and display full screen ads after specific time interval. This trend is used by most of the developers these days to earn profit by displaying ads. Even if users want to uninstall…

MalwareBytes Security

August 26, 2018 admin

A week in security (August 13 – August 19)

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:33:18 +0000

A round up of the security news from August 13 – 19, including an in-depth discussion of what drives the average cybercriminal to crime.

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Independent Krebs

August 25, 2018 admin

Who’s Behind the Screencam Extortion Scam?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 23:35:40 +0000

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. Rather, it’s likely that additional spammers and scammers piled on with their own versions of the phishing email after noticing that some recipients were actually paying up. The truth is we may never find out who’s responsible, but it’s still fun to follow some promising early leads and see where they take us.

ScadaICS Schneider

August 25, 2018 admin

Stopping electrical fires using arc flash and arc fault protection

Credit to Author: Tarek Boumegoura| Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2018 13:00:13 +0000

In a previous post in this blog series, I described how electrical fires can be caused by installations that have deteriorated over time, or from hazards due to electrical systems… Read more »

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