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Submission + - Honda Plants Shutdown (reuters.com)

Dharkfiber writes: Ransomware causing heartburn in manufacturing again. âoe Production resumed at most of the plants by Tuesday, but its main plant in Ohio, as well as those in Turkey, India and Brazil remain suspended as the ransomware disputed the companyâ(TM)s production systems, he said.â

Submission + - Buggled - bankrupted by a software bug

Dharkfiber writes: Bloomberg is covering a story today (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/cisco-s-network-bugs-are-front-and-center-in-bankruptcy-fight) about a hosting business that is now filing chapter 11 due to bugs in a switch. Good,bad, or ugly is it time to admit that business really can't continue without IT? When will IT training become formal curriculum in schools?

Submission + - Splitting HARES, Military Grade Crypto in Malware (wired.com)

Dharkfiber writes: Andy Greenberg @ Wired Magazine writes, "Software reverse engineering, the art of pulling programs apart to figure out how they work, is what makes it possible for sophisticated hackers to scour code for exploitable bugs. It’s also what allows those same hackers’ dangerous malware to be deconstructed and neutered. Now a new encryption trick could make both those tasks much, much harder." New crypto tricks being added to Malware, SSL, Disk, and now HARES packaging.

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