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Self-healing capabilities of smart grid solutions minimize blackouts

Credit to Author: Julio Cesar Martins| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 12:56:57 +0000

Until recently, electric utilities were heavily dependent on customers for notifications of an outage. Now, using smart grid solutions and self-healing capabilities, utilities can remotely monitor power equipment to: quickly… Read more »

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Credit Card Issuer TCM Bank Leaked Applicant Data for 16 Months

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 15:48:53 +0000

TCM Bank, a company that helps more than 750 small and community U.S. banks issue credit cards to their account holders, said a Web site misconfiguration exposed the names, addresses, dates of birth and Social Security numbers of thousands of people who applied for cards between early March 2017 and mid-July 2018. TCM is a subsidiary of Washington, D.C.-based ICBA Bancard Inc., which helps community banks provide a credit card option to their customers using bank-branded cards.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Windows updaters express frustrations. Microsoft responds.

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2018 08:56:00 -0700

No doubt you recall patching guru Susan Bradley’s open letter to Microsoft brass, summarizing the results of her Windows update survey. The results were quite damning in many ways, with complaints about the quality and frequency of patches topping the list.

Microsoft has responded to the open letter in a rather roundabout way. Two days after Computerworld posted the open letter, Bradley received an email that says:

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