Another day, another vendor is caught running critical infrastructure on expired OS’s. This time Medicine, and Siemens medical scanners. This ICS-CERT advisory points out that Siemens PET-CT solutions are running on Windows 7, un-patched by Siemens since 2015 and thus at least 3 known security holes exposed. The corresponding Siemens advisory is to disable network connections for the devices until patched. I wonder how many more proprietary solutions with this issue we will come across.
Day: August 8, 2017
Social Bots and the creation of fake news
An enlightening article in MIT’s Technology Review on the work done by Chengcheng Shao and colleges at Indiana University on the impact of Social Bot Nets focusing on the propagation of news from 122 identified fake news sites into social media. This was then weighted against 15.000 stories from accredited news sites for comparison and setting up platforms to keep real and bot users apart in the analysis. Interesting read.