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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 19:57:58 +0000

Costa Rica’s national health service was hacked sometime earlier this morning by a Russian ransomware group known as Hive. The intrusion comes just weeks after Costa Rican President Rodrigo Chaves declared a state of emergency in response to a data ransom attack from a different Russian ransomware gang — Conti. Ransomware experts say there is good reason to believe the same cybercriminals are behind both attacks, and that Hive has been helping Conti rebrand and evade international sanctions targeting extortion payouts to cybercriminals operating in Russia.

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Threat profile: RansomHouse makes extortion work without ransomware

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 20:53:40 +0000

RansomHouse, a new extortion group, distances itself from ransomware. However, it seems like it had ties to ransomware groups in the past.

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 31, 2022 admin

Windows 11: Should you bypass the hardware block?

Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 12:55:00 -0700

If you’re like most PC users, your current computer can’t run Windows 11. Microsoft has placed a line in the hardware sand to ensure that only modern machines with certain specifications that harden security can run Windows 11.

Well, sort of. The company provides a workaround, as I’ll discuss in a moment. Whether you should take advantage of this loophole to upgrade PCs (whether yours or your users’) to Windows 11 is the question.

First, if you want to know if a computer can run Windows 11, you can use the PC Health Check app, Microsoft’s diagnostic tool. But if your PC doesn’t support Windows 11, Microsoft’s app doesn’t do a great job of explaining why. Instead, I recommend using either the Windows 11 Requirements Check Tool from ByteJams.com or WhyNotWin11, available on Github. Both tools provide granular detail about why a machine won’t run Windows 11. On my personal laptop at home, for instance, the processor can’t support hardware for hypervisor enforced code integrity, nor does Windows 11 like the graphics display.

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 31, 2022 admin

Why Industry 4.0 must think more like Apple

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 12:16:00 -0700

For industrial applications, the Internet of Things risks becoming the Internet of Thieves. Perhaps industries making use of connected solutions should take a leaf out the Apple book and lock down their infrastructure.

What the ethical hackers say

As digital processes become deeply embedded across every industry, it makes sense that industrial control systems were tested at this year’s Pwn2Own contest. Hackers were asked to seek out vulnerabilities in industrial software and systems.

Contest winners Daan Keuper and Thijs Alkemade found that once they managed to break into the IT networks used at these companies, it was “relatively easy” to then cause havoc with systems and equipment.

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Runescape phish claims your email has been changed

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 20:08:04 +0000

We take a look at a Runescape-themed phishing mail targeting players of the smash MMORPG title, and explain how they steal the data.

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ScadaICS Schneider

May 31, 2022 admin

Integrated process control system drives uptime and flexibility for paints and coating business

Credit to Author: Juergen Woelfl| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 14:20:05 +0000

The IoT, edge computing, and enhanced data analytics have accelerated the convergence of information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT). For process-intensive industries, particularly those utilizing complex batch-production processes like… Read more »

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Green materials and its role in the sustainability journey

Credit to Author: Keyur Tandel| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 13:00:05 +0000

Sustainability is imperative for economic development in tandem with social advancement. Environmental protection is widely accepted, but much debate remains about serious implications for the products, materials, and technologies in the… Read more »

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Why diversity is essential to build the data center workforce of the future

Credit to Author: Gina Li| Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 12:30:00 +0000

It has long been known that businesses with a more diverse talent pool, especially with regards to gender, perform better in business. In 2018, for example, McKinsey published a study named… Read more »

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