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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:58:46 +0000
By using a personal iPhone instead of secured lines, President Trump makes it entirely too easy for China and Russia to spy.
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Credit to Author: Brian Varner| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000
Opinion: The fact that voter information is left on devices, unencrypted, that are then sold on the open market is malpractice.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:46:00 +0000
News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online.
Read MoreCredit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:00:00 +0000
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:36:35 +0000
In this edition of the Kaspersky Lab podcast, we discuss a pair of data breaches, a Tor SIM card, a leaky Tea Party AWS server, and more.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:00:54 +0000
“Update ready to be installed.” IT teams and business stakeholders are probably familiar with this notification, or something like it. After all, software updates are nothing new: Whenever a vendor makes improvements or includes new capabilities on a previously-released platform, it comes with a software update. But boosting existing features aren’t the only reason that patching…
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:45:00 -0700
Back on Oct. 18, a “C Week” Thursday, Microsoft released hefty rounds of bug fixes for Win10 1607, 1703 and 1709. At the time, I wondered out loud why the latest (unyanked) version of Win10, version 1803, didn’t get a similar dose. Now, on a “D Week” Wednesday, it looks like we’ve seen the deluge.
Credit to Author: Andrey Evdokimov| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 11:00:24 +0000
Some comments from Kaspersky Lab’s head of information security on the results of the CISO survey.
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