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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:10:00 +0000
Friends, friends of friends, advertisers; keeping track of Facebook’s privacy settings can get confusing. Here’s how to get yours just right.
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Credit to Author: David Axe| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:00:00 +0000
The 30-year effort to build a defense system against incoming nuclear missiles is complete. Yet the shield is basically still a prototype.
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Credit to Author: Derek Manky| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:35:59 +0000
The cybercriminal marketplace is adept at adopting the latest advances in areas such as artificial intelligence to create more effective attacks. We anticipate this trend to accelerate into 2018, enabling the destructive trends mentioned in this blog.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 06:08:00 -0800
Apple will apparently bring FaceID to its long-awaited HomePod smart speaker systems next year, but voice assistant tech may be a weak link in domestic and enterprise security, fresh research claims.
Researchers at the University of Eastern Finland claim that voice impersonators can fool smart speaker systems into thinking they are an authorized user of those systems.
It’s known that you can undermine voice authorization systems using speech synthesis, voice conversion or even dubbing recordings of a target voice.
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000
After years of pushing for a more effective emergency alert system, the carriers have finally come around to making improvements.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 12:00:00 +0000
Yes, twins can unlock each other’s iPhones. But kids accessing their parents’ devices raises different concerns.
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Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 08:00:55 +0000
2017 ist fast schon wieder Geschichte und damit beginnt die Saison der Jahresrückblicke. SophosLabs hat die Schadware in 2017 analysiert und Prognosen erstellt. Ein dominantes Security-Thema in 2017 ist Malware für Mobilgeräte, vornehmlich für Android. SophosLabs analysierte, dass es bis Ende 2017 geschätzte 10 Millionen verdächtige Android-Apps geben wird, darunter auch Ransomware, wie sie beispielsweise […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=43966&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/GNYFwr8qIb0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Jörg Schindler| Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 07:00:20 +0000
  Gerade zu Halloween ist es ja durchaus möglich, dass das traute Heim von dem einen oder anderen Spuk und frech fordernden Quälgeistern heimgesucht wird. Aber während man letztere gut mit süßen oder sauren Bonbons bestechen kann, gibt es andere Spuk-Spezies, die unsichtbar und wirklich gruselig sind: Hacking-Attacken auf das eigene Smart Home beispielsweise. Zur […]<img alt=”” border=”0″ src=”https://pixel.wp.com/b.gif?host=news.sophos.com&blog=834173&post=43780&subd=sophos&ref=&feed=1″ width=”1″ height=”1″ /><img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/sophos/dgdY/~4/NtTeArymf30″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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