A robot’s ransom
Credit to Author: Julia Glazova| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 13:00:37 +0000
Researchers investigate how vulnerabilities in robots can be exploited to take control of them.
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What’s your PQ IQ? Find out and learn how to raise it!
Credit to Author: Ram Kaushik| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 18:59:37 +0000
Power Quality pop quiz! What is the potential hourly cost of downtime in lost revenue for a facility? Is it: $20,000 $260,000 $135,000 The answer is B) $260,000 (according to… Read more »
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Read MoreThe MeshGrid Ecosystem: Short Circuiting the Century Old Power Industry
Credit to Author: Dominic Barbato| Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2018 16:10:38 +0000
For more than 100 years, perhaps with the exception of deregulation, the core business model of the global electric power industry has remained largely unchanged. In this business model, centralized… Read more »
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Read MoreA week in security (March 19 – March 25)
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:00:07 +0000
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| A roundup of notable security news from March 19 to 25, including data theft, ransomware, phone addiction, and more. Categories: Tags: bug bountymalwarephishingransomwareroundupStephen Hawking scamweek in security |
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Read MoreWhat Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem means for your data
Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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| Facebook is in the spotlight, as the recent Cambridge Analytica story involving millions of users’ data continues to melt news servers around the world. We strip away the complications and tell you exactly what happened, and why you may want to reconsider your use of social media platforms in 2018. Categories: Tags: Aleksandr Kogancambridge analyticadatadonald trumpfacebookMark Zuckerbergquizsocial mediatrump |
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Read MoreMalicious cryptomining and the blacklist conundrum
Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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| When threat actors take to free and disposable cloud services, the battle against malicious cryptomining becomes a lot more difficult. Categories: Tags: adblockersblacklistcoinhivecryptominerscryptominingGitHub |
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Read MoreWho and What Is Coinhive?
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 12:12:31 +0000
Multiple security firms recently identified cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive as the top malicious threat to Web users, thanks to the tendency for Coinhive’s computer code to be used on hacked Web sites to steal the processing power of its visitors’ devices. This post looks at how Coinhive vaulted to the top of the threat list less than a year after its debut, and explores clues about the possible identities of the individuals behind the service.
Read MoreBecause what's more important than being on-brand?
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Manager at this software vendor insists on having admin rights to every system, and she likes to set passwords that consist of the name of the company’s flagship product, reports a pilot fish working there.
“She would use ourproductname1 — or ourproductname1! if that didn’t satisfy complexity requirements — for production systems,” fish says. “Sending her a copy of our organization’s security requirements didn’t seem to help.
“Thankfully, as our product matured, more and more of the older systems came offline and were replaced by me with newer systems and secure passwords.
“One fine morning I received a barrage of alerts that our SaaS product was down. Looking through the logs, I saw a multitude of authentication errors from attempted database connections.