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Does the message to users about security need to change? Or does IT need to rebuild infrastructure so users can worry less about security? Wendy Nather, principal security strategist at Duo Security, talks with CSO senior writer Fahmida Rashid about how organizations can learn to do security right.
Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 09:04:00 -0700
Have you heard the news? Your Android device is in the midst of being updated to include Google’s comprehensive new security suite, Google Play Protect.
Play Protect, as you may recall, was one of the biggest bullet points to come out of this year’s Google I/O keynote address. It’s a “doubled-down” effort around Android security, as Google explains it, and it’s designed to ensure every Android device is always protected from any form of harm.
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Credit to Author: Richard Hoffman| Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2017 03:01:00 -0700
International border crossings are often legal gray areas where government agents can, and sometimes do, ask travelers for access to their laptops, phones and other mobile devices. Complying with the request allows them to freely search, read or copy documents, emails, passwords, contacts and social media account information.
Here’s how to safeguard corporate and personal data when traveling with recent Android-based phones and tablets, using the Chrome browser. (Part 1 of this series, which focuses on the legal background of border searches, and traveling tips for Apple devices, is available here.)
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2017 05:39:00 -0700
On June 13—five and a half weeks ago—Microsoft released a series of buggy patches for Outlook. We know they’re buggy because Microsoft acknowledged seven bugs (including one primarily caused by bugs in Windows patches) in those four original June 13 security patches. As of this morning, we still don’t have fixes for those seven bugs.
Here are the known buggy original security patches:
If you have Automatic Update turned on, you were treated not only to those patches, but to all of these three later, interim fixes for the bugs in the security patches. Don’t get too excited about them. In fact, they didn’t fix the bugs:
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Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:00:00 -0700
The premiere episode of Tech Talk covered a lot of ground as our four-member panel weighed in on everything from Microsoft’s just-announced Azure Stack to the trials of IT security pros buffeted by ongoing cyberattacks to the fate of Touch ID in the upcoming iPhone 8.
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Get the details on Microsoft's new Azure Stack, why cyberattacks never seem to end, the fate of Apple's Touch ID and why QWERTY keyboards are now tech relics.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0700
Strap on your hip waders. This particular “scare” article should have you thinking yet again about the advisability of installing Windows updates as soon as they’re available. As you’ll see, Microsoft itself has flip-flopped on the resolution and those who subscribe to Windows Update have been taken along for the ride.
Buggy June patches to Windows, Internet Explorer and Edge left customers in the horns of a dilemma:
Microsoft’s up against a hard bug that makes this an either-or proposition: Until Microsoft figures out how to fix both problems at the same time, either you patch the security hole, or you can print inside iFrames with IE, but not both.
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