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What is Managed Device Attestation on Apple platforms?

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 09:43:00 -0700

Announced at WWDC 2022, Managed Device Attestation protection shows that Apple is adjusting device security protections to adapt to an increasingly distributed age.

Secure the endpoints, not the end times

This adjustment reflects a reality shift. Work doesn’t happen on specific servers or behind defined firewalls today. VPN access can differ across teams. And yet, in a workplace defined by multiple remote devices (endpoints), the security threat is greater than ever.

Managed Device Attestation works to create a second boundary of trust around which device management solutions can work to protect against attack.

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ComputerWorldIndependent

Planned ‘fixes’ for credit-card interchange fees will actually make fraud easier

Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2022 03:00:00 -0700

I love it when organizations try and do something good, but don’t think things through and end up delivering unintended negative consequences.

Today’s case in point: the US Senate and the Federal Reserve, both of whom are looking to reduce high interchange costs, but are unintentionally increasing costs for merchants and sharply boosting the undiscovered fraud rate. Not bad for government work.

Let’s start with the Senate, where Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Roger Marshall (R-KS) have crafted The Credit Card Competition Act of 2022. Its stated goal: reduce the interchange fee that financial institutions and card brands (Visa, MasterCard, Amex, etc.) charge retailers. 

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Exploits and TrickBot disrupt manufacturing operations

Categories: Threat Intelligence

September 2021 saw a huge spike of exploit detections against the manufacturing industry, with a distributed spread between California, Florida, Ohio, and Missouri. This is combined with heavy detections of unseen malware, identified through our AI engine, spiking in May as well as September 2021.

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MalwareBytesSecurity

Binance chief says a “sophisticated hacking team” turned him into a deepfake hologram

Categories: News

Tags: Deepfake

Tags: fake

Tags: binance

Tags: cryptocurrency

Tags: Linkedin

Tags: scam

Tags: Zoom

Tags: meeting

Tags: call

Tags: fake

We take a look at reports of a Deepfake hologram getting up to no good in bogus cryptocurrency Zoom calls.

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