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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:00:00 +0000
While an electromagnetic pulse attack could cause plenty of trouble, don’t expect one to come from North Korea.
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Credit to Author: Michael deAgonia| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:57:00 -0700
With just a glance, Face ID can unlock Apple’s new iPhone X, giving owners a new authentication paradigm for the first time since the arrival of Touch ID with the iPhone 5. Face ID – that’s Apple’s name for the technology – uses a complex front-facing camera system and accompanying software to unlock the iPhone and authenticate purchases and payments with a mere glance.
The futuristic-seeming tech is one of the iPhone X’s main selling points, along with its “Super Retina” OLED screen, slimmer, bezel-less form factor and improved camera. But it also raises questions about whether the technology is as easy and secure to use as the tried-and-true fingerprint-based Touch ID.
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Credit to Author: Kaleigh Rogers| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000
We’ve always known that nudibranchs eat hydroids, but upon closer inspection, scientists have found they’re getting more than they pay for.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:06:00 -0700
Apple on Tuesday patched both macOS and iOS against serious vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol used to secure wireless networks.
Information about the flaws, dubbed “Krack” by their Belgian discoverer, made news earlier in the month when security researcher Mathy Vanhoef announced weaknesses in WPA2 that could allow criminals to read information transmitted over a Wi-Fi network thought to be encrypted.
Krack, said Vanhoef, stood for “Key Reinstallation Attacks.”
The macOS 10.13.1 and iOS 11.1 updates addressed the Krack vulnerabilities, as well as a slew of others. The Mac update fixed a whopping 148 flaws, while the iPhone and iPad update quashed 20 bugs. The bulk of the macOS patches – 90 of the total – plugged holes in “tcpdump,” an open-source network packet analyzer that’s baked into the operating system.
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Credit to Author: SSD / Maor Schwartz| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 17:25:29 +0000
Vulnerabilities summary The following advisory describes two (2) vulnerabilities found in GraphicsMagick. GraphicsMagick is “The swiss army knife of image processing. Comprised of 267K physical lines (according to David A. Wheeler’s SLOCCount) of source code in the base package (or 1,225K including 3rd party libraries) it provides a robust and efficient collection of tools and … Continue reading SSD Advisory – GraphicsMagick Multiple Vulnerabilities
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:59:11 +0000
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Credit to Author: Emma Paling| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 19:09:44 +0000
But will it mean losing astrology’s storytelling tradition?
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Credit to Author: Ankita Rao| Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2017 18:10:03 +0000
A study of fruit bat pups shows how bats use vocal learning, commonly thought of as uniquely human, to pick up new accents.
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