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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 03:00:00 -0700

IT pilot fish working for a city government keeps getting complaints from people in the Public Works department that something’s seriously wrong with their documents.

“The Public Works director, his assistant and another part-time employee told me that every time they make changes to a document, they have to keep re-saving their work,” says fish. “They also have to combine all of their work into yet another saved and current complete document.

“I asked the Public Works director to start at the beginning. Are you sharing this file off the server? ‘Yes,’ came his curt and snarky reply.

“OK, which file or folder is your document in? ‘It’s right here.’

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Security Wired

June 21, 2017 admin

A Diabolical Way of Hacking a Chip With a Wave of Your Hand

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2017 11:00:00 +0000

A new hands-off hack uses an EMP attack to overcome fundamental software protections.

Security Wired

June 21, 2017 admin

How Worried Should You Be About That 198 Million Voter Data Breach?

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:28:28 +0000

When 198 million voter records get exposed on the internet, you’ve got plenty of reason for concern.

Security Wired

June 21, 2017 admin

Watch Hackers Take Over the Mouse of a Power-Grid Computer in Ukraine

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2017 13:29:21 +0000

As intruders caused a blackout by hijacking the network of a Ukrainian energy company, spooked engineers recorded this video.

QuickHeal Security

June 21, 2017 admin

WannaCry’s Never Say Die Attitude Keeps It Going!

Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 07:17:59 +0000

Over the past few months, the cybersecurity world was at buzz due to the infamous WannaCry ransomware attack. The attack was launched on a massive scale. The campaign started after the disclosure of NSA exploit leak by a hacker group called Shadow Brokers. Taking advantage of unpatched systems all over…

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ScadaICS Schneider

June 21, 2017 admin

Increase asset availability, reliability and performance with APM 4.0

Credit to Author: Kim Custeau| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 04:05:15 +0000

There is a revolution happening in asset performance management (APM). The intersection of Industry 4.0, the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and technologies such as predictive maintenance, cloud, big data and… Read more »

The post Increase asset availability, reliability and performance with APM 4.0 appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Fortinet Security

June 21, 2017 admin

Google’s 2017 CTF Challenge: Mindreader

Credit to Author: Kushal Arvind Shah| Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2017 01:00:00 +0000

This past June 17th and 18th, 2017, Google hosted their second annual Capture The Flag (CTF) competition. The Google team created security challenges and puzzles that contestants were able to earn points for solving. It’s a clever way to leverage the security community to help protect Google users, and the web as a whole. Last year, over 2,400 teams competed, and this year the number was even higher. FortiGuard Labs decided to pull together a team and then write up a report on the experience. So, first things first, this challenge was…

MalwareBytes Security

June 21, 2017 admin