SECURITY PATCHES
MICROSOFT: Two Nasty Outlook Bugs Fixed in Microsoft’s Feb. Patch Tuesday Update. Microsoft issued 50 security fixes as part of its February Patch Tuesday release, covering vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Internet Explorer, Edge and its JavaScript engine ChakraCore. Fourteen of the vulnerabilities are labeled as critical, 34 as important and two as moderate. Read more
[THREATPOST.COM]
INTEL: Intel’s Security Patches are Causing Computers to Randomly Restart. Intel confirms that its patches to fix processors affected by the Spectre and Meltdown security flaws are causing computers to suddenly reboot on their own. Read more
[CNBC.COM]
SECURITY: The Hidden Toll of Fixing Meltdown and Spectre. In the early days of 2018, the engineering team at the mobile services company Branch noticed slowdowns and errors with its Amazon Web Services cloud servers. An unexpected round of AWS server reboots in December had already struck Ian Chan, Branch’s director of engineering, as odd. But the server slowdowns a few weeks later presented a more pressing concern. Read more.
[WIRED.COM]
GOOGLE: Says Its Security Patches Not Slowing Down Systems. Alphabet Inc’s Google said it has already deployed software patches against the Spectre and Meltdown chipset security flaws last year, without slowing down its cloud services. Find out more
[WIRED.COM]
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BLUE MOUNTAIN DATA SYSTEMS HAS THE EXPERIENCE: 1994 to Present – U.S. Dept. of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. Responsible to the Office of Technology and Information Systems for information systems architecture, planning, applications development, networking, administration and IT security, supporting the enforcement of Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act — ERISA. Within the EBSA, Blue Mountain is responsible for design, development and support for its various enforcement database management systems, as well as all case tracking and customer service inquiry systems. Blue Mountain also provides IT security services to the EBSA, in the form of FISMA Assessment and Authorization, System Security Plans, Risk and vulnerability assessments, monitoring and investigation support. Read more.
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