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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:00:00 +0000
Affected devices include iPhones, iPads, Macs, Amazon Echos and Kindles, Android devices, and various Wi-Fi routers.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:59:20 +0000
Security analyst John Strand had a contract to test a correctional facility’s defenses. He sent the best person for the job: his mother.
Read MoreCredit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 16:00:00 +0000
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Credit to Author: Sergey Golubev| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 14:00:06 +0000
If you don’t want to pay for extra gigabytes in iCloud, try these other ways to backup your photos and other iPhone files.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2020 04:40:00 -0800
Once upon a time the Internet was amazing, enabling niche interests and connecting people. Apple’s iMac was the epitome of the era, while the iPhone became the prophet of change.
These days hackers break into home networks using our routers and smart home devices, which is why everyone must learn how to use HomeKit-secured routers to keep their connected homes safe.
Apple announced HomeKit-secured routers at WWDC 2019. The first few devices to support the tech recently began to reach market, including options from Linksys and (now) Amazon’s Eero routers.
Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 21:17:07 +0000
More confirmation that storytellers are infosec experts.
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Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 19:30:51 +0000
Dave and Jeff discuss the EU’s response to Facebook’s pleas for regulation, ransomware shutting down a US energy company, Ring requiring 2FA, and more.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:11:00 -0800
Mozilla has started to turn on DNS-over-HTTPS, or DoH, as part of its overall strategy of stressing user privacy.
“We know that unencrypted DNS is not only vulnerable to spying but is being exploited,” wrote Selena Deckelmann, Mozilla’s new vice president of desktop Firefox, in a Feb. 25 post to a company blog. “We are helping…to make the shift to more secure alternatives [and] do this by performing DNS lookups in an encrypted HTTPS connection. This helps hide your browsing history from attackers on the network, helps prevent data collection by third parties on the network that ties your computer to websites you visit.”