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Credit to Author: Ankita Ashesh| Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 12:10:32 +0000
Your router, the box sitting in the corner of your house powers all your smart devices- mobile phones, laptops, tablets etc. with internet. It is the device which is directly exposed to the outside world and thus can be vulnerable to getting hacked. It may not store your personal information,…
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 03:00:00 -0700
New regulations go into effect requiring more physical and electronic security at this health insurance company, so the company hires a chief security officer to oversee the efforts, says a pilot fish there.
“I was involved in the original security implementation on most of the systems and offered to help, but the new CSO refused our input,” fish says. “He put keycard access on the computer room and UPS room and confiscated any physical keys he could find.
“When asked what would happen if the keycard system went down, he responded that ‘mechanisms are in place,'” fish recalls.
Soon, only three people have physical keys: the CSO, chief financial officer and facilities manager.
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 22:55:08 +0000
Popular file-sharing site Mega.nz is warning users that cybercriminals hacked its browser extension for Google Chrome so that any usernames and passwords submitted through the browser were copied and forwarded to a rogue server in Ukraine. This attack serves as a fresh reminder that legitimate browser extensions can and periodically do fall into the wrong hands, and that it makes good security sense to limit your exposure to such attacks by getting rid of extensions that are no longer useful or actively maintained by developers.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Chris Taylor| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 19:25:23 +0000
If one of your employees receives an email that looks like it’s from the CEO asking to send sensitive data or to make a wire transfer, could that employee spot it as a fake based on how it is written? He or she may be so concerned with pleasing the CEO that they may urgently…
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:29:00 -0700
With the arrival of “Fourth Week” patches on the last working day of August, and having had a few days to vet them, it looks as if we’re ready to release the cracklin’ Kraken.
Microsoft continues to unleash microcode patches for Meltdown and Spectre (versions 1, 2, 3, 3a, 4, n for n >=4). You won’t get stung by any of them, unless you specifically go looking for trouble.
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:00:47 +0000
Who says Macs don’t get viruses? If you think Windows is a virus magnet, the claim that Macs are completely immune to viruses is false. They may be less frequent and common than the Windows variety, but they do exist. But you’re not helpless against the malware onslaught. There are plenty of ways to improve…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:15:00 +0000
As a child I was always fascinated with patterns and in particular, their impact on people. Whether it’s the repetitive beat of a drum inspiring us to dance or our… Read more »
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Asha Devasia| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 12:00:28 +0000
Great design and engineering used to take equal parts of science, smarts and hard work, with a good dose of inspiration. Certainly, technology – from slide rules to today’s advance… Read more »
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