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NNT Software as a Service Now Available! 

NNT’s Software as a service (SaaS) is an alternative to the standard software installation in a customer’s environment (traditional called on-prem or on-premise) where a user has the responsibility of designing, building, testing, deploying and configuring the application. 

NNT has created an offering that allows customers to benefit from economies of scale and subscribe to a hosted NNT service. The advantages include: Reduced time to benefits, lower costs, secure & scalable, immediate upgrades & releases, and ease of use. 

Learn More About Our SaaS Offering Today! 

cyberattack proves gas pipelines vulnerable to attack

A recent attack on a shared data network forced four of the United States natural-gas pipeline operators to temporarily shut down computer communications with their customers over the past week.

Pipeline operators impacted by this attack include Oneok; Energy Transfer Partners; Boardwalk Pipeline Partners; and Eastern Shore Natural Gas. No gas service operations were affected by this incident, and the interruption of customer transactions was merely a precautionary act.

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sears, delta airlines report customer data breach

Department store operator, Sears, and airline operator, Delta Air Lines, announced yesterday that payment card information belonging to some of their customers could have been exposed as part of a data breach at [24]7.ai. 

[24]7.ai, which provides online support services to Sears and Delta Air Lines, among many others, informed Sears mid-March of the incident, claiming the hack resulted in the unauthorized access to credit card information for less than 100,000 customers. 

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NEw IoT botnet targets financial sector

Security experts are warning that an IoT botnet is targeting financial firms with DDoS attacks, in what many believe is the first of its kind since the notorious Mirai campaign.

The botnet has been linked to IoTroop/Reaper and just like Mirai, is comprised of a large number of unsecured TVs, DVRs, IP cameras, and home routers. According to Recorded Future, the linked malware is able to exploit a dozen vulnerabilities in these unsecured devices to hijack and conscript them and is capable of updating as new flaws are detected.

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Facebook to notify 87 million users impacted by breach

Facebook will begin notifying the eighty-seven million Facebook users whose details were shared with Cambridge Analytica in one of the social network’s largest data breaches to date.

Those impacted by the data breach will be notified with a detailed message on their news feed. 70 million of those individuals are located in the United States, 1 million in each of the UK, Philippines and Indonesia, and 310,000 within Australia.

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Top Tip & Trick: Change Tracker API

Product integration has always been the utopia for IT shops. Managing and monitoring an organizations infrastructure and applications requires a diverse set of tools to address operational needs. Occasionally there is overlap between the gathered data which various tools collect or one tool may contain information that would benefit another tool.

Enter the need for an application programming interfaces or API, a formal prearranged approached to interacting with or extracting information from an application. In today’s market no self-respecting application would be released without an API integration and NNT Change Tracker Gen7 is not different!

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verizon releases latest breach investigation report

Verizon’s recent 2018 Breach Investigations Report emphasizes that everyone has a role in managing security risks, but to best mitigate these threats you need to understand what you’re up against.

The organizations 11^th edition Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) is based on analysis of over 53,000 real-world security incidents across 65 different countries, including 2,216 confirmed data breaches.

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