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Agencies Warn of Pro-Russia Hackers Targeting OT Control Systems

SecureWorld News

According to a new joint cybersecurity alert , the hacktivists have been observed gaining remote access to small-scale industrial control systems used in water/wastewater, dams, energy, and food and agriculture by exploiting internet-exposed human-machine interfaces (HMIs) and using default or weak passwords.

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Advisory: Malicious North Korean Cyber Activity

SecureWorld News

Here's what Blindingcan has accomplished so far: "A threat group with a nexus to North Korea targeted government contractors early this year to gather intelligence surrounding key military and energy technologies. Keep operating system patches up-to-date. Scan all software downloaded from the Internet prior to executing.

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Technology Short Take #77

Scott Lowe

In a bit of an older post from late summer 2016, Matt Oswalt outlines why network engineers should care about the network software supply chain. Vivek Gite over at nixCraft explains how to use ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) on Ubuntu to limit SSH connections. Operating Systems/Applications. Career/Soft Skills.

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Technology Short Take #70

Scott Lowe

VMware recently announced Open Hardware Management Services (OHMS) , a project intended to help manage servers and switches in a software-defined data center (SDDC) context. Operating Systems/Applications. This looks neat—I need to try to find time to give it a spin. Servers/Hardware. Is the era of the storage admin over ?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Cyber Ranges

ForAllSecure

So it's the ability to rapidly create a very high fidelity replica of your network, your security tools, your operating systems, your environment and the users. No, no firewall, okay, there was a firewall that was not really great. If you want to get to put the energy into it. Here's a special.

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