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Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2017 07:05:27 +0000

Public Wi-Fi works as an essential tool for people who are constantly on the move and need to get things done. But, while having easy access to public Wi-Fi networks is convenient, it can put your data at risk of being snooped by attackers, simply because such networks are often…

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Security Wired

April 16, 2017 admin

Security News This Week: Nasty Microsoft Word ‘Booby Trap’ Loaded PCs With Malware

Credit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 14:00:48 +0000

Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Nasty Microsoft Word ‘Booby Trap’ Loaded PCs With Malware appeared first on WIRED.

Security Wired

April 16, 2017 admin

Taser’s Free Body Cameras Are Good for Cops, Not the People

Credit to Author: Jake Laperruque| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:00:34 +0000

Opinion: Free body cameras may help police, but they come at a cost to civil liberties. The post Taser’s Free Body Cameras Are Good for Cops, Not the People appeared first on WIRED.

Security Wired

April 16, 2017 admin

North Korea Probably Can’t Strike the US Yet—But It’s Still Plenty Scary

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 22:20:49 +0000

With tensions mounting in the Korean Peninsula, a look at how much—or how little—damage the Hermit Kingdom could cause stateside. The post North Korea Probably Can’t Strike the US Yet—But It’s Still Plenty Scary appeared first on WIRED.

ComputerWorld Independent

April 16, 2017 admin

An introduction to six types of VPN software

Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 15:44:00 -0700

A VPN is simply an encrypted connection between two computers, each side running VPN software. The two sides, however, are not equal.

The software that you, as the user of a VPN service deal with, is known as the VPN client. The software run by a VPN company is a VPN server. The encrypted connection always starts with a VPN client making a request to a VPN server.

There are many different flavors of VPN connections, each with its own corresponding client and server software. The most popular flavors are probably L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN, IKEv2 and PPTP.

Some VPN providers support only one flavor, others are much more flexible. Astrill, for example, supports OpenWeb, OpenVPN, PPTP, L2TP, Cisco IPSec, IKEv2, SSTP, StealthVPN and RouterPro VPN. At the other extreme, OVPN, as their name implies, only supports OpenVPN.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 16, 2017 admin

Honesty is not the best privacy policy

Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2017 04:00:00 -0700

Digital privacy invasion is more than a theoretical or actual threat to our freedoms. It’s also a huge distraction.

Take MIT genius Steven Smith. He’s recently taken time away from his specialties of radar, sonar, and signal processing at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory to automate the pollution of his family’s web traffic with thousands of arbitrary searches and sites.

His code essentially lies about internet activity to whomever is listening.

The software is an artful liar. According to a piece in The Atlantic, Smith’s algorithm uses web activity-spoofing software called PhantomJS to conduct searches in a way and on a timeline that mimics normal human online behavior.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 14, 2017 admin

Microsoft begins denying updates to some Windows 7 users

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:56:00 -0700

Microsoft this week began blocking Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs equipped with the very newest processors from receiving security updates, making good on a policy it announced but did not implement last year.

But the company also refused to provide security fixes to Windows 7 systems that were powered by AMD’s “Carrizo” CPUs, an architecture that was supposed to continue receiving patches.

The decree that led to the update bans, whether allowable or not under Microsoft’s new policy, was revealed in January 2016, when the company said making Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 run on the latest processors was “challenging.” Microsoft then ruled that Windows 10 would be the only supported edition on seventh-generation and later CPUs and simultaneously dictated a substantial shortening of support of both editions.

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ComputerWorld Independent

April 14, 2017 admin

Quantum computing advances toward the enterprise

Credit to Author: Sharon Gaudin| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 12:19:00 -0700

Quantum computing may still sound like the stuff of science fiction, but within the next 10 years, it could be a reality.

“Systems are still pretty rudimentary,” said Charles King, an analyst with Pund-IT. “Though they perform some specific kinds of calculations faster than traditional computers, they are defined by their limitations. When true, fully operable quantum systems come online, they will force the IT industry, public and private sector organizations and individuals to fundamentally rethink certain kinds of problems and all but abandon some conventional solutions.”

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