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DOL Temporarily Shuts Down OSHA Injury Reporting Portal Because of Possible Data Breach – JD Supra (press release)

DOL Temporarily Shuts Down OSHA Injury Reporting Portal Because of Possible Data Breach
JD Supra (press release)
According to Bloomberg BNA, the Labor Department temporarily shut down OSHA's (ITA) “Injury Tracking Application” portal for employers to report injuries and illnesses so that OSHA can investigate a “potential compromise” of a company's electronic data.

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UK’s armed forces settle on the iPhone 7 because they think it’s more secure than Android – Tech2


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UK's armed forces settle on the iPhone 7 because they think it's more secure than Android
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Android vs iPhone debates rage the world over on issues ranging from value for money and customisability to flexibility and security. For the armed forces of the world, however, security is everything and so far, it looks like the iPhone is turning out

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Did this ransomware threat drop away because cybercrooks went on holiday? – ZDNet


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Did this ransomware threat drop away because cybercrooks went on holiday?
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Check Point's Global Threat Index also details the most significant malware threats to businesses via mobile devices, with the HummingBad Android malware once again representing the most common cybercriminal threat to smartphones and tablets. Second …

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Cisco says it’ll make IoT safe because it owns the network

Cisco Systems is making a play for the fundamental process of putting IoT devices online, promising greater ease of use and security as enterprises prepare to deploy potentially millions of connected objects.

Thanks to a dominant position in Internet Protocol networks, Cisco can do what no other company can: Change networks that were not designed for IoT in order to pave the way for a proliferation of devices, said Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and general manager of the IoT & Applications Group.

“The internet as we know it today, and the network that you operate, will not work for the internet of things,” Trollope said in a keynote presentation at the Cisco Partner Summit in San Francisco on Tuesday. “We can solve that problem because we own the network.”

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