Cisco says router bug could be result of ‘cosmic radiation’ … Seriously?

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A Cisco bug report addressing “partial data traffic loss” on the company’s ASR 9000 Series routers contends that a “possible trigger is cosmic radiation causing SEU soft errors.”

Cosmic radiation? While we all know that cosmic radiation can wreak havoc on electronic devices, there’s far less agreement as to the likelihood of it being the culprit in this case. Or that Cisco could know one way or the other.

A reader of Reddit’s section devoted to networking asks the question: “Has anyone ever seen ‘cosmic radiation’ as a cause for software errors in a bug report before? The ‘fix’ is to reload the line card. This did resolve the issue in our case. Anybody else experience this?”

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Rand Study: Average Data Breach Costs $200K, Not Millions – Dark Reading

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Rand Study: Average Data Breach Costs $ 200K, Not Millions
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"We find that the typical cost of a data breach is less than $ 200,000, far lower than the millions of dollars often cited in surveys (e.g. Ponemon 2015)," writes Sasha Romanosky, author of the Rand study, Examining the costs and causes of cyber …

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IIC publishes the Industrial Internet Security Framework – Control Design

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IIC publishes the Industrial Internet Security Framework
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The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) has published the Industrial Internet Security Framework (IISF), a common security framework that addresses security issues in IIoT systems. The IISF emphasizes the importance of five IIoT characteristics …
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Cyberwarfare: What are we doing today? – Air Force Link

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Cyberwarfare: What are we doing today?
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USCYBERCOM is in its sixth year of operations, McLaughlin said, and was tasked to build the Department of Defense's Cyber Mission Force in 2013, as outlined in the DoD Cyber Strategy. The CMF consists of 133 teams, which are slated to reach initial …

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