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MY TAKE: The role of semiconductors in bringing the ‘Internet of Everything’ into full fruition

The Last Watchdog

Not as noticeably, but perhaps even more crucially, big advances have been made in semiconductors, the chips that route electrical current in everything from our phones and laptops to automobile components and industrial plant controls. Energy at the edges. How microcontrollers distribute energy is a very big deal.

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MY TAKE: Iran’s cyber retaliation for Soleimani assassination continues to ramp up

The Last Watchdog

and Saudi Arabia have been steadily escalating for at least the past decade, with notable spikes in activity throughout the course of 2019. Since the killing, there has been a marked increase in probing for vulnerable servers – focused on industrial control systems in facilities in both the Middle East and North America.

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A flexible energy system – the end of the beginning?

CGI

A flexible energy system – the end of the beginning? In the year since we published our 2017 research, conducted on our behalf by Utility Week, into the sector’s leaders’ views on Demand Side Flexibility in UK Utilities , there’s been some significant progress. Mon, 08/20/2018 - 06:25. Add new comment.

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Scanning for Flaws, Scoring for Security

Krebs on Security

Fair or not, a number of nascent efforts are using just such an approach to derive security scores for companies and entire industries. companies with the Cyber Risk Score, and then invited these companies to sign up and see how their score compares with that of other organizations in their industry. ARE YOU EXPERIANSED?

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IBM and business partner bring intelligent equipment maintenance to automotive company with IBM Maximo

IBM Big Data Hub

Founded in 2006, Shuto Technology is a leading asset management solution provider in China that focuses on helping industry-leading enterprises build asset operation and management platforms, and empower their core competitiveness through digitalization.

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MY TAKE: Memory hacking arises as a go-to tactic to carry out deep, persistent incursions

The Last Watchdog

In fact, memory attacks have quietly emerged as a powerful and versatile new class of hacking technique that threat actors in the vanguard are utilizing to subvert conventional IT security systems. A network breach begins, of course, with an incursion. One branch of this new class of attacks has focused on industrial control systems.

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Kali Linux Penetration Testing Tutorial: Step-By-Step Process

eSecurity Planet

The idea behind the operating system is to have a comprehensive toolbox that is relatively easy to update while following the best standards in the industry. You may use a VPN or install utilities to capture and forward traffic to other subnets, or configure proxychains. Of course, some cases may require other tools.