Siemens Enterprise Communications introduced OpenScape Desktop Videoconferencing as part of the updated OpenScape UC Suite including new security and management updates making it more affordable to deploy videoconferencing to every desktop. OpenScape Desktop Videoconferencing is a software based, multi-party enterprise capability within the new version of OpenScape UC Suite. OpenScape’s open, software-based architecture dramatically lowers the total [...]
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Siemens Enterprise Communications today announced it has been named a leader in the 2011 Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications by Gartner based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. The leader’s quadrant contains vendors providing UC suites coupled with broad communications and collaboration portfolios. For consideration, UC offerings must address Gartner’s six communication areas: [...]
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IBM yesterday announced a new hybrid cloud solution to help clients significantly reduce the time it takes to connect, manage and secure public and private clouds. This hybrid builds on the acquisition of Cast Iron offering new integration and management capabilities that allow organizations of all sizes greater control, visibility and automation into their assets [...]
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According to researchers, energy and industrial plants are vulnerable to devastating cyber attacks. Dillon Beresford, a researcher with NSS Labs, warned attendees at last week’s Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that there are significant security issues in the programmable logic controllers that are used to operate mechanical processes in power and manufacturing plants [...]
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Officials from the Department of Homeland Security warned Congress yesterday that potential variants of the Stuxnet worm could threaten important U.S. infrastructures. Roberta Stempfley and Sean P. McGurk from the DHS’ Office of Cyber Security and Communications appeared before House members and stressed the importance of strengthened cybersecurity efforts across the federal government. They said [...]
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A senior Iranian military official is accusing Siemens of helping the United States and Israel unleash last year’s Stuxnet worm, a highly complex piece of malware that targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities, according to media reports. “Our executive officials should legally follow up the case of Siemens SCADA software which prepared the ground for the Stuxnet [...]
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McAfee has introduced a new Application-Control to safeguard against advanced persistent threats. Industries such as critical infrastructure and manufacturing rely on automated processing controls, that if tampered with, can result in lost time, destruction of property, production safety issues and fatalities. McAfee is providing companies with opportunities to test environments or resources to explore implementing [...]
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The Stuxnet worm does not seem to have impacted any systems in the United States, according to a Department of Defense official Greg Schaffer, assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications at DHS, told reporters the complex malware demonstrates the plethora of increasingly sophisticated cyber threats. “It was a very tiered, very complex, very sophisticated virus,” he told the [...]
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The Stuxnet worm blamed for infecting hundreds of thousands computers and critical infrastructure in Iran could have been an inside job, according to security experts. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos, told V3.co.uk the malware could have been created by someone with detailed knowledge of Siemens’ computer systems, possibly a current or former employee. [...]
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