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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 05:49:00 -0800

As we crawl deeper down the Meltdown/Spectre bunny hole, Microsoft released on Friday night a weird, download-only patch that disables the “fix” that’s supposed to protect you against one of the Spectre variants. It’s the same patch, that works the same way, on every version of Windows, from Win7 to the latest Win10 beta builds.

I’m tempted to call it an out-of-band patch, but truth is that all of this month’s patches have been out of band.

You’ve no doubt been inundated by the news about Meltdown and Spectre, the two (actually, three) highly publicized security vulnerabilities in essentially all modern computer chips that, at this point, has never been seen on a real, live, in-the-wild computer.

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ComputerWorld Independent

January 29, 2018 admin

Ready for the EU's GDPR compliance deadline? Many companies aren't | Salted Hash Ep 16

CSO senior editor Michael Nadeau joins host Steve Ragan to talk about predictions for 2018, including the looming GDPR compliance deadline.

QuickHeal Security

January 29, 2018 admin

New fake resume email campaign infecting users with the SmokeLoader malware

Credit to Author: Prashil Moon| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 10:20:35 +0000

Email attachments are a favorite medium for attackers to deliver malware. They can be used to target a specific user or multiple users at the same time by launching spam email campaigns. To succeed in carrying out an intended malware attack, it is necessary that recipients of the malicious email…

Independent Krebs

January 27, 2018 admin

First ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 18:45:08 +0000

ATM “jackpotting” — a sophisticated crime in which thieves install malicious software and/or hardware at ATMs that forces the machines to spit out huge volumes of cash on demand — has long been a threat for banks in Europe and Asia, yet these attacks somehow have eluded U.S. ATM operators. But all that changed this week after the U.S. Secret Service quietly began warning financial institutions that jackpotting attacks have now been spotted targeting cash machines here in the United States.

MalwareBytes Security

January 27, 2018 admin

IMPORTANT: Web Blocking / RAM Usage

Credit to Author: Ken Liao| Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 19:53:22 +0000

Earlier this morning, we published a protection update that caused connection issues for many of our customers. As a side effect of the web protection blocks, the product also spiked memory usage and possibly caused a crash. We have triaged this issue and pushed a protection update that resolves it.

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ScadaICS Schneider

January 27, 2018 admin

3 Strategic Reasons for Millennials to Work at Schneider Electric

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:34:59 +0000

Written by Guest Blogger, Allen Lee “What motivates you to work for this company?” I am frequently asked this question by new graduates at career fairs, and I think that… Read more »

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ScadaICS Schneider

January 27, 2018 admin

New Research Reveals Companies Unprepared for New Energy Economy

Credit to Author: Meriah Jamieson| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:18:27 +0000

Recent survey of 236 companies shows that organizations feel ready to compete in the evolving energy landscape; but action doesn’t match perception Lack of integrated energy and sustainability planning and… Read more »

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ScadaICS Schneider

January 27, 2018 admin

The Need to Shift Control for Profitable Efficiency

Credit to Author: Peter Martin| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 20:16:10 +0000

For the better part of a century, engineers applied real-time control to improve the efficiency of industrial operations. As industrial equipment and processes became more and more complex, controlling efficiency… Read more »

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