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The Importance of Operational Technology (OT) Systems to Maintain a Secure Standard of Living in Today’s Modern Society

Credit to Author: Ronald Jules Hebert, Jr.| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

The Operational Technology (OT) networks (such as industrial control and supervisory control and data acquisition systems [ICS/SCADA]) that run today’s modern society are a collection of devices designed to work together as an integrated and homogenous system. If one of these systems fails, it can have a catastrophic domino effect. For example, electricity requires telecommunications to transfer information on wheeling power from the electrical grid.

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Securing Customers’ Physical and Virtual Networks with a SIEM Platform

Credit to Author: Lief Koepsel| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:45:59 +0000

To keep up with this threat landscape, your customers’ IT teams require security solutions that can provide real-time visibility into network activity and regulatory compliance, as well as automatically initiate a response to security events, to increase the overall efficiency of IT management teams. In order to effectively manage network security, compliance, and performance, your customers should consider implementing a SIEM (security information and event management) solution that features automation, scalability, and actionable intelligence

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SecurityTrendMicro
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Assisted Driving with Google – Today and Tomorrow

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 13:00:21 +0000

I have two people I visit often: My college friend lives near Poughkeepsie, NY; my girlfriend is in central New Jersey. Getting to Poughkeepsie is simple – there is one major route from my place in Connecticut, with two variations covering the last few miles. Trips to New Jersey can follow multiple routes, bridging the…

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An emerging trend of DDE based Office malware – an analysis by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Aniruddha Dolas| Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2017 09:27:30 +0000

For the past few years, we have been seeing macro-based attacks through Object Linking Embedding (OLE)/Microsoft Office files. But, presently, attackers are using a different technique to spread malware through Office files – using a new attack vector called ‘Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)’. DDE is an authorized Microsoft Office feature that provides several methods for transferring data between applications. Once the communication protocol is established, it doesn’t require user interactions…

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Seamless campaign serves RIG EK via Punycode (updated)

Credit to Author: Jérôme Segura| Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:48:49 +0000

The most prolific gate to the RIG exploit kit is coming in a different flavor. The Seamless campaign is now using a domain name with foreign characters translated by Punycode.

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Anti-Skimmer Detector for Skimmer Scammers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2017 20:37:22 +0000

Crooks who make and deploy ATM skimmers are constantly engaged in a cat-and-mouse game with financial institutions, which deploy a variety of technological measures designed to defeat skimming devices. The latest innovation aimed at tipping the scales in favor of skimmer thieves is a small, battery powered device that provides crooks a digital readout indicating whether an ATM likely includes digital anti-skimming technology.

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