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Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 20:32:52 +0000

Paradoxically, data center management to date hasn’t really involved data. Maintenance is based on arbitrary schedules, viewed and performed piecemeal at the equipment level and involves human intervention, i.e. the… Read more »

The post The Way to Predictive Analytics: Creating Data Infrastructure appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

February 5, 2020 admin

VB2019 paper: The cake is a lie! Uncovering the secret world of malware-like cheats in video games

At VB2019 in London, Kaspersky researcher Santiago Pontiroli presented a paper on the growing illegal economy around video game cheats and its parallels with the malware industry. Today we publish both Santiago’s paper and the recording of his presentation.

Security Wired

February 5, 2020 admin

Cisco Flaws Put Millions of Workplace Devices at Risk

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:56:40 +0000

Five vulnerabilities in Cisco Discovery Protocol make it possible for a hacker to take over desk phones, routers, and more.

Security Wired

February 5, 2020 admin

The Iowa Caucus Meltdown, a Coronavirus Mask Shortage, and More News

Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 22:20:31 +0000

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

Kaspersky Security

February 5, 2020 admin

Faking e-mails: Why it is even possible

Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 16:50:15 +0000

Phishing and business e-mail compromise attacks rely on fake e-mails. But why is it so easy for attackers to make them so convincing?

ComputerWorld Independent

February 5, 2020 admin

It’s not too late to get an Extended Security Update license for Windows 7

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 04:42:00 -0800

Worried about the future of your Win7 machine? Welcome to the family.

Right now, we have a promise that Microsoft will fix the “Stretch” wallpaper bug it rolled out last month, and there’s some hope that it will fix the Internet Explorer JScript engine security hole CVE-2020-0674 noted last month in Security Advisory ADV200001. We don’t know how/when the fix(es) will be distributed, or if Microsoft will soften its “no free Win7 patches after January 14” edict in some other way.

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ComputerWorld Independent

February 5, 2020 admin

How to check your vulnerability to credential dumping

Use these techniques to see if attackers have harvested authentication credentials from your Windows network.

Microsoft Security

February 5, 2020 admin

Ghost in the shell: Investigating web shell attacks

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:30:40 +0000

Web shell attacks allow adversaries to run commands and steal data from an Internet-facing server or use the server as launch pad for further attacks against the affected organization.

The post Ghost in the shell: Investigating web shell attacks appeared first on Microsoft Security .