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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 12:59:38 +0000
Project Shield already defends journalists and human rights groups from DDoS attacks. Now, Jigsaw will help political campaigns out as well.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 23:06:55 +0000
Former national security officials say the Trump administration’s decision to eliminate top cybersecurity policy roles sends the wrong message.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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| iPhones have a reputation for being incredibly secure. However, using an iPhone is not an automatic guarantee of invulnerability. These seven tips will help make sure your iPhone is the digital fortress it was meant to be. Categories: Tags: AppleiOSiPhoneiphone securitymobile phone security |
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 06:32:00 -0700
Third Tuesday of the month and it’s time for bug fixes and Monthly Rollup Previews, right?
Well, no. May’s Third Tuesday brought a big bag of .Net Framework Previews, microcode patches for Win10 1803 and Server 2016, and a Win10 1803 upgrade nag, but no respite at all for the major problems introduced by this month’s earlier patches.
Unless you’re testing your own .Net-based software to make sure it won’t explode next month, you don’t need to think about these. There’s the usual assortment of Previews for .Net Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7 and 4.7.1 for all the usual versions of Windows and Server.
Credit to Author: Prashant Kadam| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 13:10:48 +0000
The recent zero-day vulnerability CVE-2018-4990 in Adobe Reader enables attackers to perform a Remote Code Execution on targeted machines. Adobe has released a security advisory APSB18-09 on May 14, 2018 to address this issue. According to Adobe, the in-wild attack is targeted and it impacts limited Windows users. Vulnerable versions…
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How can you tell the difference between a legitimate email and a phishing attack? Host Steve Ragan shows what an Apple phishing attack looks like, screen by screen, showing the difference between the real and the fake.
Credit to Author: Preksha Saxena| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 11:27:25 +0000
Ransomware is becoming one of the most perilous cyberattack methods and also the most habitual techniques for cybercriminals to earn money. It appears to have new weapons in its arsenal over time which is invariably aimed to boost its strength and enhance its business. As encrypting the files and restricting…
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 03:23:00 -0700
Microsoft two weeks ago quietly added a security feature to Windows 10 Pro that initially was available only in the operating system’s most expensive edition.
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