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To hack or not to hack MSN accounts
June 2010
A mass mail invitation to a suspicious 'do-it-yourself' account hacking session puts Windows Live Messenger users at risk. The e-mail marking the first step of this data harvesting scheme is very likely ...

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Manufacturing, integration, execution and intelligence: Part 2 – MES and EMI; which one is for you
June 2010
Manufacturing integration, execution and intelligence is a large topic addressing some complex issues. In part 1 we looked at the importance of shop floor to top floor integration and what it involves. ...

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Hirschmann's RSR rail switches
June 2010, Industrial Automation & Control (IAC)
Hirschmann’s range of RSR rail switches, featuring metal case and redundant power supplies, have been built with extreme environments in mind. The RSR family delivers excellent performance in substations ...

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Hirschmann's new workgroup switches
June 2010
Profitek expands Hirschmann portfolio with three new MACH100 devices. These new Gigabit Ethernet switches, characterised amongst other things by fanless (passive) cooling, can be used for connecting ...

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Free iPad used as bait in Facebook – advertised phishing scheme
June 2010
Social networking is so good even for illegitimate marketing campaigns. How would you like to get one of the much-anticipated iPad gizmos in exchange for simply filling up a mere survey? Well, the offer ...

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Trojan uses LiveCD for Android running on x86 platforms as bait
June 2010
With the growing interest in testing the new Android OS on x86 platforms, cybercriminals are looking to exploit vulnerable users wanting to install the operating system on their PCs. A piece of malware ...

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BitDefender V2011
June 2010
BitDefender v2011 has entered the BETA phase and it has been made public. This is an opportunity for testers to get an exclusive preview of BitDefender's upcoming release, and to play an active role ...

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50 years of Sinumerik
25 May 2010, Siemens South Africa
Tracing the history of the CNC platform in its jubilee year.

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What is 'IT in manufacturing' about? Part 5: Enterprise performance management
May 2010
Performance management applies to each and every process and sub-process of the company – from accounting and logistics to HR and information management, because they are all cogs in the objective-realisation machine

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OSIsoft helps facilitate aluminium smelter upgrade
May 2010
Increased data-processing capacity without disrupting production

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iPad users targeted by backdoor dissembled as iTunes update
May 2010
An e-mail invitation to an iTunes update gets iPad users’ PCs into backdoor trouble.  Success stories are cybercriminals’ go to sources of victims and the iPad craze could not have been left out of ...

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Extremely aggressive worm chokes instant messaging
May 2010
New variant of Palevo blasts unprotected systems via fake photo gallery links. The latest offspring of the Palevo family has begun spreading these days via a massive wave of automatically generated IM ...

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Top five e-threats – April 2010
May 2010
April’s top brings forward two newcomers: a fake AV and a Trojan.Keygen! April is the third month in a row in which Trojan.AutorunInf.Gen is the top e-threat with 13,21% of the total amount of the global ...

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Rockwell Automation expands offering
May 2010, Rockwell Automation
VantagePoint – an application for web-based reporting of plant floor data. Rockwell Automation has announced the launch of Rockwell Software FactoryTalk VantagePoint, an application for web-based reporting ...

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In pursuit of the perfect plant
May 2010
The perfect plant is an ideal not an end state. In many organisations today, there are two distinct IT universes. One is populated by ERP and back office solutions. In the other reside the systems that ...

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Manufacturing integration, execution and intelligence - Part 1: Shop floor to top floor integration
May 2010
Who should read this series of articles and why? CEOs, CFOs COOs, CIOs, IT managers, production managers and engineers, will learn about the ‘grand design’ behind today’s manufacturing information solutions, ...

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Software for industrial firewalls
May 2010
The EAGLE20 v4.4 software will be installed on all newly bought Hirschmann devices, and available free of charge for existing customers. One of the key new features is off-line configuration. ‘Virtual’ ...

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Siemens introduces PoE switches
May 2010, Siemens South Africa
Combined power and data transfer via Industrial Ethernet. Siemens has fitted three of its Industrial Ethernet switches with PoE (Power over Ethernet) functionality in accordance with IEEE 802.3af. Depending ...

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On-line shopping for Mother’s Day
April 2010
Husbands and teenage children need to pay great attention to on-line transactions of all kinds According to an independent research conducted by Dept Information System, University of Cape Town “the ...

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Windows 7 compatibility checker turns out to be a Trojan
May 2010
A deceptive 'help' message invites recipients to check their PCs’ compatibility with Windows 7 by downloading and running an altered version of Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor concealing a Trojan. Cybercriminals ...

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