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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 08:56:00 -0700

Hey, look: A new BlackBerry phone is here! And no, you didn’t just wake up from a 12-year coma. I promise you, it is still 2018.

The new BlackBerry Key2, however, is aimed squarely at those who miss the glory days of the physical-keyboard-packin’ phone — specifically, business users who still place some sort of value on the BlackBerry name (even if it’s technically a different organization making the devices now). The company’s own landing page for the device placards that focus plainly:

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June 27, 2018 admin

Microsoft Patch Alert: Some bugs in Win 10 (1803) fixed, others persist

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 13:23:00 -0700

Microsoft’s patches in June took on some unexpected twists.

Windows 7 owners with older, 2002-era Pentium III machines got their patching privileges revoked without warning or explanation (and a documentation cover-up to boot), but there’s little sympathy in the blogosphere for elderly PCs.

Win10 1803 was declared fully fit for business, a pronouncement that was followed weeks later by fixes for a few glaring, acknowledged bugs — and stony silence for other known problems.

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June 26, 2018 admin

How to Avoid Card Skimmers at the Pump

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 17:59:44 +0000

Previous stories here on the proliferation of card-skimming devices hidden inside fuel pumps have offered a multitude of security tips for readers looking to minimize their chances of becoming the next victim, such as favoring filling stations that use security cameras and tamper-evident tape on their pumps. But according to police in San Antonio, Texas, there are far more reliable ways to avoid getting skimmed at a fuel station.

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June 22, 2018 admin

beVX Conference Challenge – HiTB

Credit to Author: SSD / Noam Rathaus| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:30:44 +0000

During the event of Hack In the Box, we launched an ARM reverse engineering and exploitation challenge and gave the attendees the change to win great prizes. The challenge was divided into two parts, a file – can be downloaded from here: https://www.beyondsecurity.com/bevxcon/bevx-challenge-10 – that you had to download and reverse engineer and server that … Continue reading beVX Conference Challenge – HiTB

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June 22, 2018 admin

Supreme Court: Police Need Warrant for Mobile Location Data

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 20:30:13 +0000

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that the government needs to obtain a court-ordered warrant to gather location data on mobile device users. The decision is a major development for privacy rights, but experts say it may have limited bearing on the selling of real-time customer location data by the wireless carriers to third-party companies.

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June 22, 2018 admin

Supreme Court: Your digital location is protected by the Constitution

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:15:00 -0700

The U.S. Supreme Court today ruled that access to historical cell-site records of a person’s location based on their mobile phone will require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching a person’s historical location records.

This is the first time the high court has ruled on whether a phone subscriber has a legitimate expectation of privacy regarding a telephone company’s records of their cellphone location data, according to Aloke Chakravarty, a partner in the Denver-based law firm of Snell & Wilmer.

“This is a landmark case for privacy, and how the court will deal with emerging technologies going forward,” Chakravarty said via email. “It creates a new lens through which to view a government’s ability to obtain third-party records where a criminal defendant neither possesses the records, doesn’t have a property interest in them, may not even know they exist, and he cannot personally even access them.”

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June 22, 2018 admin

Big Win10 1709 patch reinforces twice-a-month patching pace but, oddly, nothing new for 1803

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 05:36:00 -0700

Microsoft’s Windows 10 patching pace is so fast at this point that one Patch Tuesday doesn’t cover all the bases. Instead, we’re seeing one massive Cumulative Update on Patch Tuesday, and a second — typically large — grab bag of patches later in the month.

You have to wonder what’s happening, though, when Microsoft can deliver its second bundle of patches for 1709, 1703 and 1607 before the second patch for the latest version, 1803, sees light of day.

The Win10 patches

KB 4284822 for Win10 1709

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June 22, 2018 admin

Apple pushes privacy theme in Safari for iOS 12, 'Mojave'

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2018 03:23:00 -0700

Apple upgrades its Safari browser on macOS and iOS just once a year, making the refresh more strategic than most of its rivals, notably Google, which last year had eight separate opportunities to add features or functionality to Chrome.

The next Safari, which will be bundled with macOS 10.14 ‘Mojave’ and iOS 12, and offered as a separate download for those who stick with macOS High Sierra (10.13) and Sierra (10.12), thus must make its enhancements count.

On the security and privacy side, Safari tries its hardest to build a case. Here are the important ways Apple’s browser – which shed user share on both the desktop and on mobile over the past year – has staked its reputation for the next 12 months.

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