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Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:39:38 +0000
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| Doctor Who Series 11 is upon us, and so too are the dubious streams and links promising fresh content. We take a look at what’s currently on offer, separating the spam from the timey-wimey wibbly wobbly. Categories: Tags: bestv(dot)onlinedoctor whomoviessign upstreamingyoutube |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2018 16:31:56 +0000
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| A roundup of the security news from October 1–7 including National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, LoJack, fileless malware, and BYOS. Categories: Tags: adobeAndroidanti-swattingblockchainbring your own securitybyosChrome ExtensionFake Fortnitefortnitehack the marine corpsIoTIoT botnetLojacknational cybersecurity awareness monthNCSAMnot botnetpassword managerphishingphishing campaignrdprecaprip attacksSC MagazineswattingToriivoice phishingvulnerabilitiesweek in securityweekly blog roundupZDNet |
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 04:29:00 -0700
Apple and Amazon have strenuously denied Bloomberg’s claims of a sophisticated hardware exploit against servers belonging to them and numerous other entities, including U.S. law enforcement
Put in very simple terms, the claim is that malicious chips were found inside servers used in data centers belonging to the tech firms.
These chips (it’s claimed) worked to exfiltrate data from those servers, which were themselves sourced from server manufacturer Super Micro. That company’s server products are/were also used by Amazon, the U.S. government, and 30 other organizations. The chips were allegedly put in place by employees bribed by Chinese government agents.
Credit to Author: Amy Haddon| Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 21:07:53 +0000
Renewable energy has been plagued by some persistent rumors that just aren’t true. Here, we respond to six of the most common. 1. Renewable energy is more expensive. Has it… Read more »
The post Definitive Answers to 6 Renewable Energy Myths appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Hardware hacks, the government gets two-factor, and more security news this week.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 11:00:00 +0000
The White House keeps accusing China of election interference—but it’s nothing like Russia in 2016.
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Credit to Author: Ryan Faas| Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2018 04:17:00 -0700
On Thursday, Bloomberg Businessweek published an in-depth report alleging that Chinese suppliers for server hardware company Supermicro had placed microchips onto motherboards ordered by the San Jose-based company that were later sold to fill orders from as many as 30 customers.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 19:45:18 +0000
From time to time, there emerge cybersecurity stories of such potential impact that they have the effect of making all other security concerns seem minuscule and trifling by comparison. Yesterday was one of those times. Bloomberg Businessweek on Thursday published a bombshell investigation alleging that Chinese cyber spies had used a U.S.-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. There aren’t any corroborating accounts of this scoop so far, but it is both fascinating and terrifying to look at why threats to the global technology supply chain can be so difficult to detect, verify and counter.
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