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Credit to Author: Bob Violino| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:37:00 -0700
Here are five major industries that will benefit from blockchain technology in the near future: financial services and banking, government, healthcare, energy, and transportation and logistics.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:50:52 +0000
Turn on MFA and start building a long-term authenticator strategy that relies on “phish proof” authenticators, such as Windows Hello and FIDO.
The post Your password doesn’t matter—but MFA does! appeared first on Microsoft Security.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Adam Gauci| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 12:00:13 +0000
This two-post blog series looks at the drivers for electrical system cybersecurity, as well as how the IEC 62443 standard is helping simplify the definition of cybersecurity requirements. The Internet-of-Things… Read more »
The post Protecting against cybersecurity risks in IoT-enabled electrical systems appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 18:28:06 +0000
The Trump administration’s attacks on the whistle-blower aren’t just baseless—they could have a corrosive long-term effect.
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Credit to Author: Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Just make a Chinese website your device’s remote administrator. It’ll be fine!
Read MoreCredit to Author: Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 15:00:00 +0000
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| Malwarebytes threat intel partnered with security firm HYAS to connect the dots between Magecart Group 4 and the advanced threat group Cobalt. Categories: Tags: carbanakcolbalt groupcredit cardsdata theftecommerceFIN7group 4HYASJavaScriptMagecartskimmersthreat actorthreat actor groupthreat actors |
The post Magecart Group 4: A link with Cobalt Group? appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Marina Mash| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:37:51 +0000
The botnet generally propagates through EternalBlue, the same vulnerability that made the WannaCry and NotPetya outbreaks possible.
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Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 03:00:00 -0700
As the IT communications manager at this university, pilot fish is the person who sends out memos about IT policy to users. And he does just that when a phishing email starts circulating on campus.
Never send your user name and password to anyone via email, he warns them, and to give them an example of what to look out for, he pastes in the text of the phishing attempt.
Within minutes, his inbox is flooded with responses from students sending him their campus passwords, their Gmail passwords, their Yahoo passwords and more.
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