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Credit to Author: Thad Frost| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:20:19 +0000

A distributed control system (DCS) – the central brain controlling complex processes in energy-intensive, process-heavy industrial facilities – is vital to the continued, efficient, and profitable operation of the businesses… Read more »

The post Upgrading Your Obsolete DCS? These Are the Top 5 Questions You Should Ask Yourself to Reduce Risk appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Security Wired

April 6, 2022 admin

Europe Is Building a Huge International Facial Recognition System

Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Lawmakers advance proposals to let police forces across the EU link their photo databases—which include millions of pictures of people’s faces.

Security Wired

April 6, 2022 admin

Meta Tries to Break the End-to-End Encryption Deadlock

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000

A new report Meta commissioned aims to redefine comprehensive encryption as essential to protecting human rights.

ComputerWorld Independent

April 6, 2022 admin

Windows 11 — we haven’t seen anything, yet

Credit to Author: Rob Enderle| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 10:24:00 -0700

Disclosure: Microsoft is a client of the author.

Microsoft this week had an analyst event about Windows 11 and a variety of productivity, management, and security features the company has planned. Over the last couple of years, Microsoft has aggressively improved both Windows and Office 365, but the big change ahead is the potential blend of Windows with Windows 365. We’ll see that start by the end of the year. The end game should be what appears to be a Windows desktop that integrates so well with the cloud that it can, when necessary, seamlessly switch between instances to comply with company policy, assure security, and provide recourse on automatic demand from Azure Cloud.

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Independent Krebs

April 6, 2022 admin

The Original APT: Advanced Persistent Teenagers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:55:38 +0000

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. But few organizations have a playbook for responding to the kinds of virtual “smash and grab” attacks we’ve seen recently from LAPSUS$, a juvenile data extortion group whose short-lived, low-tech and remarkably effective tactics are putting some of the world’s biggest corporations on edge.

Microsoft Security

April 6, 2022 admin

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2022 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave™ report

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 17:00:00 +0000

Microsoft was named as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Detection and Response for Q1 of 2022—the ninth Leader position for Microsoft Security in a Forrester Wave™.

The post Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2022 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave™ report appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Fortinet Security

April 6, 2022 admin

The Latest Remcos RAT Driven By Phishing Campaign

FortiGuard Labs analyzes how a phishing campaign delivers the Remcos RAT onto a victim’s device, how it executes on the device, the sensitive information it steals from the victim, as well as the commands this Remcos RAT uses to control the victim’s device. Read to learn more.

Security Sophos

April 6, 2022 admin

Sophos Provides Financial Support for Refugees

Credit to Author: Steve Mahoney| Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 16:54:20 +0000

As the conflict in Ukraine continues, more than 4 million people have been displaced. Sophos has donated an additional USD $200K to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), which provides fleeing refugees with critical necessities like water, food, shelter, and clothing.