It is election day.. Have you voted?   Beware, IPhone Users: Fake retail apps are surging before the holidays The issue of brand protection and knock-off websites, apps and such is real Spilling over into digital world, from physical What is your company doing to protect yourself and your customers? http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/technology/more-iphone-fake-retail-apps-before-holidays.html?_r=0   Moving Beyond EMET EMET is going away … in a while Most of the features are now built into Windows 10 This is a great thing (built in vs bolted on security) https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/srd/2016/11/03/beyond-emet/   Tesco Bank blames ‘systematic sophisticated attack’ for account losses Fraud system appears to be working - good ~40,000 accounts affected, ½ of those lost money Tesco is putting funds back, making things right Core banking assets don’t appear compromised, ATMs and such still work Potentially an issue with website, fixable http://www.bbc.com/news/business-37891742   Google Discloses “Critical Flaw” in Microsoft OS 10 Days After Notifying Microsoft upset at Google Google says it meets their 7-days-to-disclosure policy from 2013 How do you even patch an issue in 7 days - or write up a mitigation if there is none? Is your company prepared to deal with this type of thing? http://www.computerworld.com/article/3137192/security/google-clashes-with-microsoft-over-windows-flaw-disclosure.html