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Credit to Author: Lionel Ardid| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 15:33:07 +0000

Poor power quality can wreak havoc on business systems uptime impacting both safety and driving up operational costs. From a safety perspective, imagine a mine that experiences an outage and… Read more »

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September 15, 2017 admin

Know, Think, & Do – Resources on digitization in mining that can help you make some sense of it all

Credit to Author: Greg Johnson| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:00:57 +0000

Digitization in the mining industry remains the topic of much discussion…and much confusion! In fact, I just returned from a trip to China where I heard people say, “We don’t… Read more »

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ComputerWorld Independent

September 15, 2017 admin

Google squeezes Symantec until it certs

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 11:41:00 -0700

Google has finalized a schedule that, over the next 12 months, will send companies scrambling to replace the digital certificates that secure their websites or risk being viewed with suspicion by users running Chrome, the world’s most popular browser.

“Companies are staring down the barrel of a boat load of work,” said David Anthony Mahdi, a research director at Gartner, and the industry research firm’s resident expert on digital certificates and the CAs (certificate authorities) that issue them. “This is massive.”

Beginning with Chrome 66, currently set to show up the third week of April next year, Google will “remove trust in Symantec-issued certificates issued prior to June 1, 2016,” wrote three members of the browser’s security team, in a post to a company blog. “If you are a site operator with a certificate issued by a Symantec CA prior to June 1, 2016, then prior to the release of Chrome 66, you will need to replace the existing certificate with a new certificate from any Certificate Authority trusted by Chrome.”

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ComputerWorld Independent

September 15, 2017 admin

Outlook 2010 Tower of Babel patch KB 4011089 breaks VBScript print

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 05:27:00 -0700

If you’ve installed KB 4011089, this month’s Outlook 2010 security patch, and you can no longer print custom forms, you aren’t alone. I’m seeing reports from several sources that installing the patch destroys printing functionality in custom Outlook 2010 forms.

It isn’t clear at this early stage if other versions of Outlook are affected or if other Office programs may have the same kind of problem.

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Security TrendMicro

September 15, 2017 admin

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of September 11, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2017 14:59:53 +0000

In last week’s blog, I mentioned the Apache Struts vulnerability, which is still making headlines as estimates show that as many as 65 percent of Fortune 500 companies use it in some form. In addition, Equifax claims it has played a role in their breach affecting more than 143 million Americans. On July 11, 2017,…