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Credit to Author: Employee Voices| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:00:18 +0000

Written by Chris Collins, Vice Presidents, Buildings – South & West Regions for Schneider Electric. In the industry for over 20 years, Chris is passionate about corporate partnerships and supporting… Read more »

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Security Wired

October 2, 2019 admin

How Incognito Google Maps Protects You—and How It Doesn’t

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:17:11 +0000

Turning on the new Incognito Mode in Google Maps won’t make you as invisible as it might sound.

Security Wired

October 2, 2019 admin

Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Researchers have found a potential silver lining in so-called adversarial examples, using it to shield sensitive data from snoops.

ComputerWorld Independent

October 2, 2019 admin

Time to install Microsoft's mainstream September patches – and avoid the dregs

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:00:00 -0700

It’s a smelter-weight slapdown.

In one corner you have the Chicken Little contingent, which insists that September’s IE zero-day patch must be important because Microsoft marked it as “Exploited: Yes” and memorialized it with an extremely odd patch on a Monday, followed in Keystone Kops fashion with a stumbling trail of follow-ons.

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Security TrendMicro

October 2, 2019 admin

In Identity Theft the Target is You!

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:52:23 +0000

The hard truth is that identity data is the new gold—and criminal panhandlers are mining it for sale and distribution on the Dark Web. Indeed, the internet provides ways for big data breaches to result in disastrous leaks of huge databases of personal information, resulting in detailed profiles of individuals—based on their internet behaviors, including…

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Kaspersky Security

October 2, 2019 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 112

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:15:29 +0000

On this podcast, Jeff is joined by Oksana, Kate, Julia and Anya in Moscow to discuss what privacy means to them.

ComputerWorld Independent

October 2, 2019 admin

Post-retirement Windows 7 patches: Not just for the big dogs now

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 05:29:00 -0700

Microsoft on Tuesday changed its plans for selling Windows 7 post-retirement support, saying that it will offer patches-for-a-price to any business, no matter how small, that’s willing to pay.

“Through January 2023, we will extend the availability of paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) to businesses of all sizes,” Jared Spataro, an executive in the Microsoft 365 group, wrote in a post to a company blog.

Microsoft had announced the ESU program in September 2018. Since April, when the company started selling ESU, only customers with volume licensing deals for Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows 10 Professional have been eligible to purchase the support add-on.

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ComputerWorld Independent

October 2, 2019 admin

How to safely erase data under Windows

Bitlocker and self-encrypting hard drives can make it easier to erase data so that it cannot be recovered. This is how the “crypto-erase” method works.