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Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 15:24:15 +0000
What Russian hackers, American spies, the Israeli Intelligence Service, and Kaspersky Lab have to do with each other. What is happening, anyway?
Read MoreCredit to Author: Kim Custeau| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:38:07 +0000
Organizations in asset-intensive industries are constantly challenged to deliver maximum return on assets (ROA) while working with minimal budgets, data integrity challenges and lack of insight into the factors driving… Read more »
The post 3 Ways to Maximize Return on Assets with Risk-Based Maintenance appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 14:03:50 +0000
Astronomers capture both a gravitational wave and optical imagery from the energetic union of two neutron stars in a distant galaxy.
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Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 07:23:00 -0700
When I hear people worrying about cloud security, they’re usually shaking in their boots about some obscure bug beyond their control. Ha! Ordinary, stupid human mistakes are more than bad enough.
For example, Accenture left hundreds of gigabytes of private user and corporate data on four unsecured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 cloud servers. The data included passwords and decryption keys. What did you need to dig into this treasure trove? The servers’ web addresses.
That’s all. No user ID, no password, no nothing.
Adding insult to injury, according to Chris Vickery, director of cyber-risk research at security firm UpGuard, Accenture’s revealed data included its AWS Key Management System (KMS) master keys. With those, an attacker could have also taken control of all the company’s encrypted AWS data.
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Credit to Author: Yael Grauer| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:33:12 +0000
Technologists, hackers, and journalists recap episode 1: “Power Saver Mode”
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Credit to Author: Matthew Gault| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000
That’s not a bad thing!
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Credit to Author: Anthony Giandomenico| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 12:50:59 +0000
In light of today’s huge skills gap, security professionals have an obligation to mentor the next generation. Employees of cybersecurity vendors can help shrink the gap by volunteering their time in the classrooms, from elementary school through college. The knowledge and experience of front-line professionals is invaluable, whether to explain to first-graders what malware is or to steer college students toward the right classes to give them a strong foundation for a cybersecurity career. The problem is bigger than any one vendor or educational
Read MoreCredit to Author: Yves Renaud| Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 13:00:15 +0000
A 2016 survey of healthcare executives revealed that financial challenges, government mandates, and patient safety continue to be top concerns. Further, 56% felt they needed to reduce operating costs. This… Read more »
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