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Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 13:00:28 +0000

Valentine’s Day was earlier this week, and there was so much love in the air. There was also a lot of love in the Trend Micro world as our teams worked diligently to make sure our customers were protected from this month’s bevy of critical vulnerabilities across several vendors. This week, we focus on Microsoft,…

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Facebook Notification Spam Has Crossed the Line

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:16:15 +0000

From SMS notifications to an egregious number of emails, the social media company’s desperation has gone too far.

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Pro-Gun Russian Bots Flood Twitter After Parkland Shooting

Credit to Author: Erin Griffith| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 19:00:12 +0000

In the wake of Wednesday’s Parkland, Florida school shooting Russian bots have taken to Twitter to stoke the gun control debate.

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Facebook’s Onavo Protect VPN Offers Less Privacy Protection Than Other Apps

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 16:27:59 +0000

The “Protect” menu item in Facebook’s mobile apps refers users to the company’s Onavo Protect VPN, but the tool falls short of basic privacy standards.

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North Korea’s Olympic Diplomacy Hasn’t Stopped Its Hacking

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Despite its Olympics diplomacy towards the South, the Kim regime is still engaged in brazen cybercrime targeting its neighbor.

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Gfycat Uses Artificial Intelligence to Fight Deepfakes Porn

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 21:46:26 +0000

Can a computer spot deepfakes? The GIF website Gfycat says it can.

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Democratic Task Force Outlines Voting Security Plan, With First Primary Just Weeks Away

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 20:54:41 +0000

The Congressional Task Force on Election Security announced extensive recommendations for strengthening defense. But most of them won’t happen any time soon.

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Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 24

Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2018 17:20:32 +0000

In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a new LinkedIn scam targeting pensioners, finding love with passwords, and alien hunting.