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Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 15:05:00 +0000
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| A roundup of the security news from April 09 – April 16, including fake updates, safe messaging, and Facebook spammers. And our quarterly CTNT report is out. Categories: Tags: encryptionfacebookFakeUpdatesMalwarebytessafe messagingsecurityspammersweekly blog roundup |
The post Week in security (April 09 – April 15) appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 07:06:00 -0700
With so much focus on staying productive, it may surprise you to realise just how many things you can do with a locked iPhone. What can you do and how can you switch these features off?
The Raise to Wake feature available since iPhone 6S/SE means your iPhone can tell when you pick it up and will wake the display up automatically, so you need not do so. Left on by default, you can disable this feature in Settings>Display & Brightness where you toggle Raise to Wake to off.
You can call people from a locked iPhone. Just ask Siri to call a person in your contact book. You can also send Messages using the locked device, just ask Siri to send a Message and name someone in the device’s Contacts book. To stop this, set Allow Siri When Lockedto off in Settings>Siri & Search.
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Flashback to the days when this pilot fish is managing an email system for several corporate clients, and he needs to pick good passwords from the get-go — because these users will never bother changing them.
“I wrote a program to generate accounts and to create a password,” says fish. “The system consisted of a dictionary of about 100 three-letter words, and a separate dictionary of four-letter words where I had tried to remove the bad words. Then there was a list of special symbols, and then the digits 0 through 9.
“The system chose one element from each list, and put them in a random order. It then printed the information out. I folded the piece of paper and placed it in an envelope and mailed it — never actually looking at it.
Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:43:19 +0000
A new variant of the Dharma ransomware (‘.arrow’) has been observed in the wild. This variant appends the extension ‘.arrow’ to the files it encrypts and spreads via spam emails. How Dharma encrypts its victim’s files Once executed, the ‘.arrow’ variant of Dharma uses the below command to disable…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Peter Herweck| Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 19:00:03 +0000
Manufacturers across the globe are digitizing their operations in ways that include improvements to design, engineering, operations and maintenance. These companies are investing in digitization to achieve one common goal:… Read more »
The post How “Smart Manufacturing” Opens Doors to Improved Plant Productivity appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Russia bans popular encrypted chat app Telegram, China’s facial recognition system flexes, and more security news this week.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Steven Carlini| Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 16:00:00 +0000
Over the last several years, the move to the cloud has stabilized as the applications that could be easily and cost effectively outsourced, were moved to the cloud. The applications… Read more »
The post What You Need to Know About Hybrid Data Centers appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 10:23:00 -0700
A Windows Ink engineer has confirmed that there’s a bug in the third Win10 1709 March Cumulative Update, KB 4089848, that breaks common pen movements in Photoshop, Lightroom and CS Paint. Looks as if the same problem bedevils this month’s 1709 Cumulative Update, KB 4093112, as well. Microsoft, it seems, decided to break pen behavior in Win10 1709 without any notification or explanation.
Early this month, DavideV, on the Microsoft Answers forum, posted a rather strange observation: