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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 03:25:52 +0000

The U.S. Justice Department today unsealed indictments against four Chinese officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) accused of perpetrating the 2017 hack against consumer credit bureau Equifax that led to the theft of personal data on nearly 150 million Americans. DOJ officials said the four men were responsible for carrying out the largest theft of sensitive personal information by state-sponsored hackers ever recorded.

Microsoft Security

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Afternoon Cyber Tea—From threat intelligence to chatbots: A look at AI in cybersecurity

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:00:44 +0000

On this episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea, Ann Johnson and Jane Frankland discuss chatbots, AI, and increasing the number of women in cybersecurity.

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Kaspersky Security

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Will an immobilizer save your car from being stolen?

Credit to Author: Alexey Ferapontov| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 20:35:09 +0000

Researchers presented a study on the reliability of modern vehicle immobilization systems at the Chaos Communication Congress.

ComputerWorld Independent

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Patch Tuesday’s tomorrow. Verify you have 'Pause Updates' enabled

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 12:13:00 -0800

Remember the frenzy after last month’s Patch Tuesday? How everybody and his twice-removed cousin — even the N forkin’ SA — told you to get patched immediately because of this big, spooky Crypto API security hole that was supposed to bring down Windows As We Know It, like, right now?

Guess what. It never materialized.

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ScadaICS Schneider

February 10, 2020 admin

Equipment Modernization: Ensuring Safety and Uptime in the Present and Reducing Risk in the Future

Credit to Author: Frederic Abbal| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 09:25:16 +0000

You can probably think of a million reasons to put off that expensive, possibly disruptive equipment upgrade you’ve been planning – even though you know it will be a tremendous… Read more »

The post Equipment Modernization: Ensuring Safety and Uptime in the Present and Reducing Risk in the Future appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Security Wired

February 10, 2020 admin

How 4 Chinese Hackers Allegedly Took Down Equifax

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 17:52:32 +0000

The Department of Justice has pinned the hack on China. Here’s how it was done, according to the indictment.

ComputerWorld Independent

February 10, 2020 admin

UEM to marry security — finally — after long courtship

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800

The days of enterprise security being a separate entity from mobile and desktop endpoint management are coming to an end, which should delight infrastructure and security teams who’ll eventually have more powerful machine learning-enabled tools at their disposal — and a single console through which to control them.

Security around mobile and desktop infrastructures has traditionally depended on what’s being managed; you purchase one for mobile devices and another for the rest of your endpoints, whether laptop or desktop.

While security threats are growing, particularly phishing attacks via email, SMS or hyperlinks, the amount of money companies spend on mobile security appears to be shrinking. And yet, the percentage of organizations that admit to having suffered a mobile compromise grew in 2019, according to a Verizon survey.

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MalwareBytes Security

February 10, 2020 admin

Battling online coronavirus scams with facts

Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:56:49 +0000

New online scams have preyed on the public’s fear about coronavirus outbreak. Don’t be fooled. Here is what we know about coronavirus and its related scams.

Categories:

Social engineering

Tags: 2019-nCoV CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention china coronavirus email scam emotet Hubei malware Novel Coronavirus phishing campaign phishing scam quarantine US CDC WHO World Health Organization Wuhan

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