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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 21:53:10 +0000

By not informing the US government of two industry-wide hardware flaws, Intel may have inadvertently given ammo to China’s hackers.

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July 12, 2018 admin

The Aurora Power Grid Vulnerability and the BlackEnergy Trojan

Credit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:10:42 +0000

At recent Industrial IoT security briefings, the Aurora vulnerability has come up repeatedly. Attendees ask, “Is our country’s power grid safe? How can we protect the grid? What is Aurora?” This post provides a look at Aurora, and the BlackEnergy attack that can exploit Aurora. In March 2007, the US Department of Energy demonstrated the…

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ComputerWorld Independent

July 12, 2018 admin

Patch Tuesday problems abound, Server 2016 crashes, and a .Net patch goes down in flames

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 06:18:00 -0700

You know it’s going to be an Alice in Wonderland month when some sites report that Microsoft plugged 54 vulnerabilities on Patch Tuesday, while others report 53. Fact is, patching has become so brutal — and so banal — that there’s no consensus on counting, much less on what’s good and bad.

Suffice to say that, once again this month, there was a huge number of security patches (129 individual patches, according to the Microsoft Update Catalog), with no pressing security fixes unless you’re using the Edge browser or Internet Explorer. Microsoft changed Win10 version 1803 to “Semi-Annual Channel,” but the term now means less than it ever has before. If that’s possible.

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Security Wired

July 11, 2018 admin

Facebook Gave Russian Internet Giant Special Data Extension

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 21:31:55 +0000

Mail.ru also ran hundreds of apps on Facebook at a time when the platform’s policies allowed app developers to collect their users’ friends’ data.

Security Wired

July 11, 2018 admin

DIY Guns: A Landmark Ruling Opens the Door for Homemade Firearms

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 17:29:14 +0000

Cody Wilson makes digital files that let anyone 3-D print untraceable guns. The government tried to stop him. He sued—and won.

MalwareBytes Security

July 11, 2018 admin

IoT domestic abuse: What can we do to stop it?

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 15:00:00 +0000

A disturbing new use of technology against loved ones has come to light: Internet of Things (IoT) domestic abuse cases are being reported, and security experts are wondering how best to tackle this new problem. What is it? And more importantly, what can we do to fight it?

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Security TrendMicro

July 11, 2018 admin

How the Industry 4.0 Era Will Change the Cybersecurity Landscape

Credit to Author: Ed Cabrera (Chief Cybersecurity Officer)| Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2018 13:00:33 +0000

Today’s highly automated and connected smart factories (Industry 4.0) were born out of yesterday’s steam engines that mechanized manufacturing (Industry 1.0); mass-production lines expanded with the advent of electricity (Industry 2.0); and then IT-enabled manufacturing plants ushered in the era of connected industrial control systems with programmable logic controllers (PLC). While enterprises struggle to enhance…

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July 10, 2018 admin