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Credit to Author: Anna Yarygina| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:34:06 +0000
From global dominance to the search for stability. Founded in 1960, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) currently includes 14 members: 7 in Africa, 5 in the Middle East… Read more »
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Hans Luppens| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 14:51:00 +0000
As fresh reports pour in each day about the spread of the Chinese coronavirus, it should serve as a reminder to hospitals and other healthcare facilities just how important they… Read more »
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 19:00:57 +0000
New research from MIT shows that the Voatz app appears to have some glaring security holes.
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 13:30:00 -0800
Elections officials in numerous states have piloted various mobile voting applications as a method of expanding access to the polls, but MIT researchers say one of the more popular apps has security vulnerabilities that could open it up to tampering by bad actors.
The MIT analysis of the application, called Voatz, highlighted a number of weaknesses that could allow hackers to “alter, stop, or expose how an individual user has voted.”
Additionally, the researchers found that Voatz’s use of Palo Alto-based vendor Jumio for voter identification and verification poses potential privacy issues for users.
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 16:36:45 +0000
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| We give advice on safe online dating, including steering clear of scams, buttoning up on privacy, and avoiding vulnerable apps. Categories: Tags: appsdatingonline datingopsecromancescams |
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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800
With 99 reported vulnerabilities and patches to both Microsoft browsers, Office and Windows, this month’s Patch Tuesday update is not as large an administrative burden as you might initially think. We’ve rated the browser updates as a “Patch Now” update due to issues with the Chakra engine, but both Office and Windows can be scheduled according to a regular patch cadence. Unfortunately, we have another Adobe Flash update to deploy, but no critical development updates for February.
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Credit to Author: Goutam Tripathy| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 09:57:14 +0000
Quick Heal Security Labs recently came across a variant of Ryuk Ransomware which contains an additional feature of identifying and encrypting systems in a Local Area Network (LAN). This sample targets the systems which are present in sleep as well as the online state in the LAN. This sample is packed with…
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 13:18:00 -0800
BlackBerry has unveiled its Digital Workplace platform, a web portal and workspace for secure online and offline access to corporate on-premise or cloud content, including Microsoft Office 365 resources.
Digital Workplace, announced last week, integrates a secure browser-based workspace sold by Awingu, a Belgium company that penned a partnership with BlackBerry in 2018. Businesses can access their legacy Windows, Linux, SaaS or internal web apps, desktops and files inside of Awingu’s secure managed browser. Awingu’s unified workspace runs Windows, Linux, web and intranet apps.