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Throwback Thursday: How did…er, DIDN'T he do that?

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 03:00:00 -0700

It’s 1977, and this network analyst pilot fish is working at a newly constructed data center — one with a big fence.

“The company had just gotten a new sense of needing physical security, so they had included a new, state-of-the-art security system,” says fish.

“It had electronic locks at a handful of doors in the building, a 10-foot-high fence with a motorized gate, and key-card reader stations by each of the locked doors and the gate.”

One day, company needs to bring a new communications line up between the data center and an office 10 miles away. Fish’s team leader decides the best way to do this without disrupting the users is to have fish go to the remote office at 4:30 a.m., while his team leader goes to the data center.

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Patch Tuesday fallout: Bad docs, but so far no major problems

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 08:46:00 -0700

Microsoft may have fixed July’s horrible, no good, very bad patches. Although the initial documentation for this month’s patches included warnings about many of the bugs that persisted from July, it ends up that the docs were wrong, and most of the known problems seem to be fixed.

As of early Reboot Wednesday morning, the patches seem to be behaving themselves. Of course, it frequently takes days or even weeks for bugs to appear, so you’d be well advised to avoid jumping into the unpaid battle zone for now.

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Carrier Grade Security Means … Using Carrier Grade Security

Credit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2018 12:05:57 +0000

It’s a common mistake in enterprises to copy-paste security solutions from a peer. Strategies can be recycled, but sadly with even very similar businesses almost always have radically different IT and security requirements. I recall one hospital that looked at a nearly identical peer hospital that was only a few miles away. Much of the…

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A hidden Android Pie security setting everyone should enable

Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 09:24:00 -0700

Google’s new Android 9 Pie release has plenty of fresh features and interface changes, but one of the software’s most significant security improvements has managed to stay mostly off the radar.

In addition to all of the oft-discussed privacy and security enhancements, y’see, Pie has an out-of-sight and semi-advanced option. It’s not something you’d use every day — or often at all, really — but if the right sort of occasion ever comes along, you’ll be glad you have it enabled.

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AV-Comparatives: Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac Provides 100% Malware Protection for Mac Users

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 14:00:43 +0000

Despite popular opinion otherwise, the days have long since passed when Mac users can venture forth on the Internet without having to worry about viruses or ransomware, phishing attacks or dangerous URLs. Though the number of attacks on the Mac are fewer than those on Windows machines (because there are fewer Macs, of course, making…

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