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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:34:24 +0000
The digital realm has become a critical space for individuals to express their opinions and further their causes.
The post Graffiti in the digital world: How hacktivists use defacement appeared first on .
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:06:00 -0700
People think I’m joking when I refer to bug fixing as Microsoft’s next billion-dollar business. I’m not. This month woefully demonstrated why patching Windows has become much bigger – and more critical – than developing new versions. Microsoft’s hell-bent move to bring out new versions of Windows twice a year “as a service” makes things worse, but quality control problems dog patches to every version of Windows. Except, arguably, Windows 8.1.
In April, we’ve seen a return to two massive cumulative updates per month for all supported versions of Windows 10. The second cumulative update, with luck, fixes the bugs in the first cumulative update. Windows 7 turned into a fiery pit when it was discovered in late March that every patch to Win7 (and Server 2008R2) pushed out this year enables the Total Meltdown bug. Fortunately, by April 23, we finally saw some stability return to the process.
Credit to Author: Patrick Donovan| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:38:40 +0000
Throughout time, humanity has been striving to improve its condition and circumstances. This striving has come in fits and starts. And at times, we fail in a big way…think war… Read more »
The post Why the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Necessary & Key to the Tech Future appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Researchers didn’t have to hack Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to use it for eavesdropping. They just took advantage of the system in place.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000
Researchers found—and helped fix—a flaw in Vingcard RFID locks that would let hackers break into any room in hotels around the world.
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Credit to Author: Steven Levy| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000
Ray Ozzie thinks his Clear method for unlocking encrypted devices can attain the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 17:41:37 +0000
Authorities in the U.S., U.K. and the Netherlands on Tuesday took down popular online attack-for-hire service WebStresser.org and arrested its alleged administrators. Investigators say that prior to the takedown, the service had more than 136,000 registered users and was responsible for launching somewhere between four and six million attacks over the past three years.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:18:42 +0000
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| It seems opportunists are jumping on popular video game Far Cry 5’s bandwagon, with a flood of promises for free game downloads. We take a look at a return to form for survey scams, and the odd download site while we’re at it. Categories: Tags: crackcultdownloadfar cry 5malwaremontanascamsurvey offersUbisoftvideogame |
The post Far Cry 5 download offers: embrace the power of “no” appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
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