Fact or fiction: Hyphens break iPhones
Credit to Author: Marvin the Robot| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:34:37 +0000
Does saying “hyphen” five times to your iPhone really crash it — or is that just another myth?
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Month: February 2019
Tackling the shortage in skilled IT staff: whole team security
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 16:40:23 +0000
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| Is whole-team-security, or empowering tech-savvy volunteers to help, a good solution to the shortage of skilled IT staff? It could be, if you keep certain ground rules in mind. Categories: Tags: byodbyosempowermentenablementITit staffshortageskills shortagevolunteers |
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Read MoreThis Week in Security News: Cloud Risks and Container Vulnerability
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 15:00:02 +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, learn about this year’s current uses and emerging risks of the cloud. Also, find out what new vulnerability was found in containers. Read on: Attacking Containers and…
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Read MoreCIOs, you’re doing blockchain wrong
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800
IT leaders who’ve taken the plunge into blockchain are mainly deploying it in proofs-of-concept tests to address the same problems a conventional database could handle, according to research firm Gartner.
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Read MoreHow pirates hook gamers
Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 08:37:35 +0000
The story of a guy who just wanted to download a pirated copy of a game but got malware instead. It’s happening more and more often, and we explain why.
Read MoreGandCrab Riding Emotet’s Bus!
Credit to Author: Bajrang Mane| Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2019 10:03:57 +0000
Emotet Known for constantly changing its payload and infection vectors like spam mail, Malicious Doc and even Malicious JS files. It compromised a very high number of websites on the internet. Emotet malware campaign has existed since 2014. It comes frequently in intervals with different techniques and variants to deliver malware…
Read MoreMozilla to harden Firefox defenses with site isolation, a la Chrome
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:13:00 -0800
Mozilla plans to boost Firefox’s defensive skills by mimicking the “Site Isolation” technology introduced to Google’s Chrome last year.
Dubbed “Project Fission,” the effort will more granularly separate sites and their individual components than is currently the case in Firefox. The goal: Isolate malicious sites and attack code so individual sites cannot wreak havoc in the browser at large, or pillage the browser, the device or the device’s memory of critical information, such as authentication credentials and encryption keys.
“We aim to build a browser which isn’t just secure against known security vulnerabilities, but also has layers of built-in defense against potential future vulnerabilities,” Nika Layzel, the project tech lead of the Fission team, wrote in a post last week to a Firefox development mailing list. “To accomplish this, we need to revamp the architecture of Firefox and support full Site Isolation.” Layzel also published the note as the first newsletter from the Fission engineering group.
How to use your Mac safely in public places
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 10:59:00 -0800
Coffee shops across the planet are populated by earnest Apple Mac-wielding remote and/or freelance workers – but are they taking steps to protect themselves in a public place? Follow this checklist to make sure you are protected.
12 ways to use your Mac safely in public places
1. Worry about Wi-Fi
Public Wi-Fi networks are dangerous places, not least because you don’t really know how the network is set up or who else is sitting on the same network with you.
Criminals are known to set up legitimate-seeming hotspots on which their software lurks, attempting to take data (including your bank and intranet passcodes) in transit. Please beware: