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Credit to Author: Elizabeth Wolk| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:00:55 +0000

Gamified cybersecurity learning is an increasingly important must-have in your SecOps program, from understanding basic concepts all the way into advanced attacker and defense scenarios. Microsoft and Circadence are working together to democratize and scale cyber readiness globally.

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ComputerWorld Independent

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Microsoft to Windows 7: Beat it, you bum

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:36:00 -0800

Microsoft today figuratively told Window 7 – which ended support with a final security update – not to let the door hit it on the way out.

“Ten-year-old tech just can’t keep up,” Jared Spataro, an executive on the Microsoft 365 team, wrote in a post to a company blog. “As we end support for Windows 7, I encourage you to transition to these newer options right away.”

Not surprisingly, Spataro named those newer options as Windows 10 to replace Windows 7, and Office 365 to fill in for the retiring-in-October Office 2010. Combined, they make up the bulk of Microsoft 365, the business subscription plan Microsoft wants all customers to adopt.

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ComputerWorld Independent

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Apple refuses latest government iPhone-unlock request

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:30:00 -0800

Apple turned down a request from U.S. Attorney General William Barr this week, saying it will not help unlock two iPhones used by a terrorist suspect last month in the deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla.

Barr said the shooter, 21-year-old Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, acted alone when he shot and killed three service members and wounded several others, including two sheriff’s deputies responding to the attack. Alshamrani, a member of the Saudi Air Force and an aviation student at the base, was shot dead on the scene by police.

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Security Sophos

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January 2020 Patch Tuesday delivers fixes for 50 bugs

Credit to Author: SophosLabs Offensive Security| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:15:18 +0000

This month’s big security news from Microsoft is the end of support for Windows 7, and a patch of a cryptographic library<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/wiyw9sHJyLE” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Leading the Secure Power Division into the Future

Credit to Author: Pankaj Sharma| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:06:53 +0000

As we begin this new year, I am very excited to have the opportunity to step up to lead the Secure Power Division of Schneider Electric as Executive Vice President…. Read more »

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ScadaICS Schneider

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Day in the Life of a Design Engineering Intern: Harry

Credit to Author: Employee Voices| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 14:00:27 +0000

My First-hand Experience into the energy management & automation world There are only a few top companies in the energy management and automation industry. Schneider Electric is one of those… Read more »

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