Amino Apps Makes the Case for Anonymity Online
Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000
The saying goes, “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” Is that a good thing for an app for teens?
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Kotlin-based malicious apps penetrate Google market
Credit to Author: Gleb Malygin| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:00:00 +0000
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| New malicious apps appear in Google Play abusing Kotlin, the “safest” official programming language for the Android. Categories: Tags: AndroidGoogle Playkotlinmalware |
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Read MoreEvil pics in Telegram
Credit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 15:47:53 +0000
Cybercriminals attack Telegram users with an old trick for masking malware as pictures.
Read MoreOn the Road with the Microsoft Tech Summit In Europe
Credit to Author: Ronen Shpirer| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:45:59 +0000
Fortinet is a sponsor of the 2018 Microsoft Tech Summit, a traveling seminar and exhibition series in Europe
Read MoreExecutive Insights: Securing the Next Generation of Digital Transformation
Credit to Author: Jonathan Nguyen-Duy| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:44:49 +0000
Cybercrime is a continually increasing problem due to the digital transformation-driven expansion of the attack surface and the growing sophistication of bad actors.
Read MoreChrome 68 to condemn all unencrypted sites by summer
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 03:10:00 -0800
Google has put a July deadline on a 2016 promise that its Chrome browser would tag all websites that don’t encrypt their traffic.
“Beginning in July 2018 with the release of Chrome 68, Chrome will mark all HTTP sites as ‘not secure,'” wrote Emily Schechter, a Chrome security product manager, in a Feb. 8 post to a company blog.
Google has scheduled Chrome 68 to release in Stable form – analogous to production-level quality – during the week of July 22-28.
Starting then, Chrome will insert a “Not secure” label into the address bar of every website that uses HTTP connections between its servers and users. Sites that instead rely on HTTPS to encrypt the back-and-forth traffic will display their URLs normally in the address bar.
Vulnerabilities found in Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter of Lenovo laptop chipsets
Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:07:22 +0000
Vulnerabilities found in Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter of Lenovo laptop chipsets Lenovo recently released an advisory, warning customers about two critical Broadcom vulnerabilities which impact 25 models of its popular ThinkPad lineup. The Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets used by Lenovo ThinkPad devices are affected by the CVE-2017-11120 & CVE-2017-11121 vulnerabilities. Both these issues…
Read MoreHow Hackers Are Leveraging Machine Learning
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 00:34:40 +0000
Unfortunately, like many advanced and innovative technological processes, machine learning can be leveraged for both beneficial enterprise purposes as well as malicious activity.