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Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:38:35 +0000
Concerned social scientists turned their analytical skills onto one of their most widely used research tools this week: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 09:42:00 -0700
Microsoft’s KB 4458166, released on Tuesday, explains that the push to Win10 version 1803 has been halted for machines running .Net applications that use the TLS 1.2 security protocol. Presumably, effective Tuesday, if you have a Win10 1709 or 1703 machine that’s running one of those programs (including, notably, QuickBooks Desktop), Microsoft won’t try to push 1803 on it.
Credit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 16:00:02 +0000
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| We feel compelled to relay the dire warning from this Barclays snail-mail letter, which we acquired through social media, therefore it must be true. Categories: Tags: barclayscredit cardfailfakeLOLphishquality controlscamsnail mailsnail mail phish |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 15:50:43 +0000
When it comes to online accounts, voicemail is a major security hole. Here’s why.
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 08:51:00 -0700
After launching a proof of concept earlier this year, IBM and Maersk have unveiled TradeLens, the production version of an electronic ledger for tracking global shipments; the companies say they have 94 participants piloting the system, including more than 20 port and terminal operators.
The jointly developed electronic shipping ledger records details of cargo shipments as they leave their origin, arrive in ports, are shipped overseas and eventually received.
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:29:54 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, the FBI warned U.S. banks of a wide-scale cybercrime campaign called “ATM cash-out,” in which hackers use cloned ATM cards for fraudulent withdrawals. Also, a botnet called…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Gajanan Khond| Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 14:12:09 +0000
This malware has all basic functionalities of the Android banker along with additional features like call forwarding, sound recording, keylogging and ransomware activities. It has the ability to launch user’s browser with URL received from the C&C server. It repeatedly opens the accessibility setting page until the user switches ON the ‘AccessibilityService’. The…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 20:13:17 +0000
With the introduction of Android v8.0 (Android Oreo) in August of 2017, among other OS improvements Google introduced its built-in malware protection for Android call Play Protect (dependent on Google Play Services 11 or later). Play Protect checks apps and APK files downloaded from Google Play or third-party sources, using real-time and on-demand scanners, while…
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