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Safari to ape Firefox, go all-in on anti-tracking
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:53:00 -0700
The WebKit project – the open-source initiative that generates code for Apple’s Safari browser – quietly announced last week that it would follow in Mozilla’s footsteps and quash tracking technologies designed to follow users across the web.
In a short message on Aug. 14, the WebKit team pointed to its new Tracking Prevention Policy, a document that spells out its plans in detail, including what types of tracking it will create and how it will deal with any side effects.
“We have implemented or intend to implement technical protections in WebKit to prevent all tracking practices included in this policy,” the document read. “If we discover additional tracking techniques, we may expand this policy to include the new techniques and we may implement technical measures to prevent those techniques.”
The Industry 4.0 Era is Driving the Need for Industrial Edge Data Centers
Credit to Author: Paolo Colombo| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:31:00 +0000
We are now well-entrenched in the Industry 4.0 era, or the 4th Industrial Revolution, and are seeing advancements in technology that will require increasingly greater computing power at the network… Read more »
The post The Industry 4.0 Era is Driving the Need for Industrial Edge Data Centers appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.
Read MoreA Huge Ransomware Attack Messes With Texas
Credit to Author: Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:00:00 +0000
A coordinated strike against 23 local governments is called the largest such hack from a single source.
Read MoreFinally, a Lightning YubiKey to Kill Password Clutter on Your iPhone
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000
First promised back in January, the first YubiKey for iOS will help cut down on painful password clutter starting… now.
Read MoreChina Attacks Hong Kong Protesters With Fake Social Posts
Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 22:48:46 +0000
Twitter and Facebook say they’ve taken down misinformation campaigns from China that cast pro-democracy activists as ISIS members and cockroaches.
Read MoreYou Can Jailbreak Your iPhone Again (But Maybe You Shouldn’t)
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:53:49 +0000
Apple reintroduced a previously fixed bug in iOS 12.4, which has led to a jailbreak revival.
Read MoreDEF CON 27 retrospective: badge life redux
Credit to Author: Jean Taggart| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:42:20 +0000
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