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Wayback Wednesday: At least he asked

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 01 May 2019 03:00:00 -0700

Malware from the web is slowly becoming a problem where this support pilot fish works.

“We have about two tickets a week with users saying they have thousands of viruses and they need to download software,” says fish.

“Now, every machine has virus protection, and everyone runs locked-down in user-only mode to prevent the rogue installation of software. But we have decided we need to increase our user awareness after the following ticket was received at the help desk:

“‘I just received an ominous warning that my computer was infected with several viruses. I tried running the program to remove these viruses (as it indicated for me to do), but I’m not sure it worked.

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The Next Enterprise Challenge: How Best to Secure Containers and Monolithic Apps Together, Company-wide

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 13:00:51 +0000

Submitted by: Adam Boyle, Head of Product Management, Hybrid Cloud Security, Trend Micro When it comes to software container security, it’s important for enterprises to look at the big picture, taking into account how they see containers effecting their larger security requirements and future DevOps needs. Good practices can help security teams build a strategy that…

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Microsoft tells IT admins to nix 'obsolete' password reset practice

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 03:00:00 -0700

Microsoft last week recommended that organizations no longer force employees to come up with new passwords every 60 days.

The company called the practice – once a cornerstone of enterprise identity management – “ancient and obsolete” as it told IT administrators that other approaches are much more effective in keeping users safe.

“Periodic password expiration is an ancient and obsolete mitigation of very low value, and we don’t believe it’s worthwhile for our baseline to enforce any specific value,” Aaron Margosis, a principal consultant for Microsoft, wrote in a post to a company blog.

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Microsoft Patch Alert: April patches have sharp edges, with several missing, others reappearing

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 09:32:00 -0700

You have to wonder who’s testing this stuff.

Admins, in particular, have had a tough month. April brought widespread breakdowns – bluescreens, hangs, very sluggish behavior – to hundreds of thousands of Win7 and 8.1 machines. This wasn’t a “small percentage” kind of event. For some companies, rebooting overnight on Tuesday brought seas of blue screens on Wednesday morning.

The first round of cumulative updates and Monthly Rollups arrived on Patch Tuesday, but the now-ubiquitous second round didn’t show up until late Thursday afternoon, two and a half weeks later. Talk about admins taking a beating.

We still have one Tuesday left this month – the mythical “E week” that Microsoft never talks about – so the month may yet end with both a bang and whimper.

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Why wearables, health records and clinical trials need a blockchain injection

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 03:00:00 -0700

TORONTO – The opportunity exists in healthcare to hand over control of medical records to patients who can choose not only what info providers can see but what personal data gets added to records via wearables, genomics and even lifestyle choices.

And once patients begin accumulating more data about themselves in personal health records (PHRs), they can opt to anonymize that information and sell it to researchers, vastly expanding the pool of information available for clinical studies.

Because no data is as sensitive as a medical record, being able to assure its security and immutability through blockchain encryption represents a unique opportunity to “repatriate” and “monetize” that record for the patient, according to Dr. Eric Hoskins, chair of Canada’s Federal Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare.

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