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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 19:48:25 +0000
As Jack Dorsey and Sheryl Sandberg testified before Congress, some of Twitter and Facebook’s most notorious trolls and misinformation artists watched on.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:51:13 +0000
A 19-year-old man from the United Kingdom who headed a cybercriminal group whose motto was “Feds Can’t Touch Us” pleaded guilty this week to making bomb threats against thousands of schools. On Aug. 31, officers with the U.K.’s National Crime Agency (NCA) arrested Hertfordshire resident George Duke-Cohan, who admitted making bomb threats to thousands of schools and a United Airlines flight traveling from the U.K. to San Francisco last month.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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| We take a look at what’s going with gaming juggernaut Fortnite’s decision to snub the Google Play store, why allowing installs from unknown sources on Android is a bad idea, and what the future might bring if such a setup ever catches on. Categories: Tags: AndroidAndroid appsAPKEpicexternal storageFake FortnitefortniteGoogle PlayinstallMobilemobile malwareopen platform |
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2018 13:47:31 +0000
Have you ever wondered why your Mac is running slow? Does it freeze when performing even just the simplest of tasks? Does it take a while to launch and switch programs? Everybody has gone through this excruciating pain at least once. Even though the Mac is known to be a high-performance machine, it disappoints us…
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Read MoreCredit 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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