The aftermath of the Twitter epilepsy attack
Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 16:45:45 +0000
Twitter has taken actions to prevent attacks with strobing images on people with epilepsy. Are these actions sufficient?
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The Everyday Cyber Threat Landscape: Trends from 2019 to 2020
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:15:04 +0000
The past 12 months have been another bumper year for cybercrime affecting everyday users of digital technology. Trend Micro blocked more than 26.8 billion of these threats in the first half of 2019 alone. The bad news is that there are many more out there waiting to steal your personal data for identity fraud, access…
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Read MoreAmid privacy and security failures, digital IDs advance
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800
Frustration over a growing number of privacy and security failuresin recent years is driving the creation of digital identities controlled only by those whose information they contain.
Known as “self-sovereign identities,” the digital IDs will be used by consumers, businesses, their workers and governments over the next few years to verify everything from credit worthiness and college diplomas to licenses and business-to-business credentials.
“We are slowly graduating from crawling to walking. It takes one to two years ’til we have reliable capabilities to spark meaningful decentralized identity adoption,” said Homan Farahmand, a senior research director at Gartner. “A major non-technical hurdle is for organizations to learn the concept and take the necessary steps to appropriately adapt their business processes to decentralized identity ecosystems.”
The Army Bans TikTok
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 14:00:00 +0000
A million-dollar email scam, a Chinese hacking campaign, and more of the week’s top security news.
Read MoreHow to Secure Your Wi-Fi Router and Protect Your Home Network
Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000
Router security has improved a bunch in recent years, but there are still steps you can take to lock yours down even better.
Read MoreHow the US Prepares Its Embassies for Potential Attacks
Credit to Author: Eric Adams| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 00:13:47 +0000
In addition to securing physical structures, the Diplomatic Security Service runs simulations of protests in a model city in Virginia.
Read MoreSnow White, the Seven Cryptominers, and the targeted attacks
Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2020 11:19:06 +0000
The Brothers Grimm fairy tales are deep source of object lessons in information security — not just for children, but also for adults.
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