Day: December 6, 2018

Humble Bundle Breach Could Be First Step In Wider Attack

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ESET Discovers 21 New Linux Malware Variants

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Facebook Defends Mark Zuckerberg’s Exposed Emails

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Facebook Will Bring Political Ad Transparency Tools To India Ahead of 2019 Elections

As India inches closer to its general elections, Facebook announced today that it is bringing transparency to political ads on its platform in the country early next year. From a report: This would make India the fourth market — after the U.S., Brazil, and the U.K. — where Facebook offers users a disclaimer on political…


The Signal in the Noise: How Security Teams Can Capture Actionable Threat Insights

With the barrage of information coming into a system, separating the noise from the genuine threats can be a difficult process. This is where AI can come in, to help you separate the real risks to your business from normal network noise. …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine


Human Error, We Meet Again

For all the hundreds of firewall rules and network protocols that your security staff may put in place to better safeguard your network, sometimes there’s simply no accounting for the most unpredictable variable of them all: human behavior. Whether it be through social engineering techniques, bad actors within your own organization, or simple human error,…


Critical Infrastructure Under Persistent Threat

The cyber threats facing Industrial Control Systems (ICS) include nation-state attacks, hacktivists, criminals and even trusted insiders. The frequency and ferocity of attacks are growing and continue to pose a major challenge to those ICS practitioners and cybersecurity teams tasked with protecting our critical national infrastructure (CNI). …read more Source:: SecurityMagazine


Microsoft Is Embracing Chromium, Bringing Edge To Windows 7, Windows 8, and Mac

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today embraced Google’s Chromium open source project for Edge development on the desktop. The company also announced Edge is coming to all supported versions of Windows and to macOS. Microsoft wants to make some big changes, which it says will happen “over the next year or so.” The first preview…


Snapdragon Tech Summit 2018, day 3 livestream: Always-connected PCs and more – CNET

The third and final day of Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Tech Summit moves from phones to PCs. …read more Source:: CNet


Fail of the Week: A Candle Caused Browns Ferry Nuclear Incident

A colleague of mine used to say he juggled a lot of balls; steel balls, plastic balls, glass balls, and paper balls. The trick was not to drop the glass balls. How do you know which is which? For example, suppose you were tasked with making sure a nuclear power plant was safe. What would…