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September 20, 2023 admin

How Schneider Electric’s EcoXpert Program is helping create sustainable facilities throughout Southern California

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 11:00:00 +0000

In this blog, we hear from Kyle Meyer, Western Regional Director, on how partners in the Schneider Electric EcoXpert Program help create more sustainable buildings. About Schneider Electric Schneider Electric is a global leader in energy management and automation solutions. Their EcoXpert Partner Program is…

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ScadaICS Schneider

September 20, 2023 admin

3 consumer trends influencing how new homes are built

Credit to Author: Brittany Saunders| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 06:17:10 +0000

For one home builder, building sustainable homes that leverage connected home technology is simply the right way to respond to a changing market. “As energy costs rise, today’s home buyers are focusing on purchase price, operating costs and functionality,” says Conrad Ehr, president of Ehrenburg…

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ComputerWorld Independent

September 20, 2023 admin

UK's controversial online safety bill set to become law

Four years after it started life as a white paper, the UK government’s controversial Online Safety Bill has finally passed through Parliament and is set to become law in the coming weeks.

The bill aims to keep websites and different types of internet-based services free of illegal and harmful material while defending freedom of expression. It applies to search engines; internet services that host user-generated content, such as social media platforms; online forums; some online games; and sites that publish or display pornographic content.

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ComputerWorld Independent

September 20, 2023 admin

Jamf: Generative AI is coming to an Apple IT admin near you

Imagine running fleets of iPhones that alert you when unexpected security-related incidents take place, or when otherwise legitimate service requests arrive from devices at an unexpected time or location. Imagine management and security software that not only identified these kinds of anomalies but gave you useful advice to help remediate the problem.

This, and more, is the kind of protection Jamf hopes to deliver using generative AI tools.

Generative IT for Apple admins

Jamf believes generative AI can be a big benefit to tech support and IT admin, and talked about its efforts at the end of an extensive Jamf Nation User Conference (JNUC) keynote. Akash Kamath, the company’s senior vice president, engineering, explained that just as the Mac made computing personal, genAI makes AI personal.

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Microsoft Security

September 20, 2023 admin

Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in the 2023 Zero Trust Platform Providers Wave™ report

Credit to Author: Joy Chik| Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2023 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft is proud to be recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust Platform Providers, Q3 2023 report.

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Microsoft Security

September 20, 2023 admin

Peach Sandstorm password spray campaigns enable intelligence collection at high-value targets

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:30:00 +0000

Since February 2023, Microsoft has observed a high volume of password spray attacks attributed to Peach Sandstorm, an Iranian nation-state group. In a small number of cases, Peach Sandstorm successfully authenticated to an account and used a combination of publicly available and custom tools for persistence, lateral movement, and exfiltration.

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Microsoft Security

September 20, 2023 admin

Uncursing the ncurses: Memory corruption vulnerabilities found in library

Credit to Author: Microsoft Threat Intelligence| Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:30:00 +0000

A set of memory corruption vulnerabilities in the ncurses library could have allowed attackers to chain the vulnerabilities to elevate privileges and run code in the targeted program’s context or perform other malicious actions.

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Security TrendMicro

September 20, 2023 admin

Attacks on 5G Infrastructure From Users’ Devices

Credit to Author: Salim S.I.| Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Crafted packets from cellular devices such as mobile phones can exploit faulty state machines in the 5G core to attack cellular infrastructure. Smart devices that critical industries such as defense, utilities, and the medical sectors use for their daily operations depend on the speed, efficiency, and productivity brought by 5G. This entry describes CVE-2021-45462 as a potential use case to deploy a denial-of-service (DoS) attack to private 5G networks.