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Is product data the new oil in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry?

Credit to Author: Marilidia Clotteau| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 13:01:21 +0000

We have seen in my previous post, In product data, we trust: the need for a “centralized digital version of the truth” for packaged products, the urgent need for Consumer… Read more »

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Your Windows PC may become collateral damage in any conflict with Iran

Credit to Author: Preston Gralla| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:18:00 -0800

When Iran launches cyberattacks in revenge for the killing of Major Gen. Qasem Soleimani — which it almost certainly will do — the attack vector, as always, will be Windows. And when that happens, your PC and your business’s PCs will be right in the crosshairs. Here’s why — and how you can protect your machines and your business.

A long history of U.S.-Iranian cyberwarfare

To understand the coming cyberattacks, it’s useful to look back. For more than a decade, the U.S. and Iran have engaged in low-level cyberwarfare, with occasional bursts of higher-level attacks. The most destructive of them was Stuxnet, launched in 2009 by the U.S. and Israel against Iran’s nuclear program. It exploited four zero-day flaws in Windows machines, which controlled the centrifuges Iran used to create nuclear material that can be used in nuclear weapons.

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United States government-funded phones come pre-installed with unremovable malware

Credit to Author: Nathan Collier| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:00:00 +0000

A US-funded government assistance program is selling budget-friendly mobile phones that come pre-installed with unremovable malicious apps. Malwarebytes Labs investigates the malware’s origins.

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