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Predicting the top 7 trends in manufacturing for 2020

OpenText Information Management

After starting the year strongly, manufacturing left 2019 faced with shrinking production and global uncertainty. Deloitte suggests manufacturers should increase the resilience in their operations while building and improving their ‘digital muscle’.

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IoT devices at major Manufacturers infected with crypto-miner

Security Affairs

Hackers have infected with a piece of malware some IoT devices running Windows 7 designed by three of the world’s largest manufacturers. The experts reported that several IoT devices at some major manufacturers have been infected with a cryptocurrency miner in October 2019. ” reads the report p ublished by TrapX.”First,

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Data-Wiping Attacks Hit Outdated Western Digital Devices

Data Breach Today

Manufacturer Stopped Supporting Targeted Network-Attached Storage Devices in 2015 Owners of Western Digital My Book Live devices have seen their data remotely wiped by attackers targeting a flaw first detailed in 2019.

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Industry Guide to Manufacturing: Four trends for the Intelligent and Connected manufacturer

OpenText Information Management

While the manufacturing sector has continued to grow steadily over the last decade, the forecast from the US National Association of Manufacturers is for growth in the US to slow in 2019 due to skills shortages and the high cost of raw materials.

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5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019

Security Affairs

2018 was the year of the Internet of Things (IoT), massive attacks and various botnets hit smart devices, These are 5 IoT Security Predictions for 2019. 2019 will continue these trends but at a faster pace. Upcoming government standardization efforts will continue to increase substantially in 2019. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cyber-Criminal espionage Operation insists on Italian Manufacturing

Security Affairs

ZLab researchers spotted a new malicious espionage activity targeting Italian companies operating worldwide in the manufacturing sector. The group behind this activity is the same we identified in the past malicious operations described in Roma225 (12/2018), Hagga (08/2019), Mana (09/2019), YAKKA (01/2020). Introduction.

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P2P Weakness Exposes Millions of IoT Devices

Krebs on Security

Although it may seem impossible to enumerate more than a million devices with just a six-digit ID, Marrapese notes that each ID begins with a unique alphabetic prefix that identifies which manufacturer produced the device, and there are dozens of companies that white-label the iLnkP2P software.

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