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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 12:00:40 +0000
Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention. The post Security News This Week: Yeah, About That Carrier Steaming Toward North Korea appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Eric Niiler| Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 11:00:03 +0000
Last year, the US finished last in Locked Shields, NATO’s cyber war games. This year, it had its eye on redemption. The post The US Takes On the World in NATO’s Cyber War Games appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 21:45:28 +0000
The NSA won’t collect the emails of US citizens just because they mention a foreign target. That’s a big deal. The post A Big Change in NSA Spying Marks a Win for American Privacy appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:20:00 -0700
The recent wave of new mesh router systems has brought with it changes besides the obvious increase in Wi-Fi range. For example, these mesh routers are more likely to insist on WPA2-AES encryption, as many have dropped support for the less secure WEP and WPA options. Not all of them, but many.
Here I take a look at another insecure router technology, WPS (Wi-Fi protected setup) and how these new mesh routers deal with it.
WPS is an alternate way of gaining access to a Wi-Fi network that does away with having to know the SSID (network name) and password. Much of what you read about WPS is incomplete, as it supports at least four different modes of operation.
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Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:20:00 -0700
The recent wave of new mesh router systems has brought with it changes besides the obvious increase in Wi-Fi range. For example, these mesh routers are more likely to insist on WPA2-AES encryption, as many have dropped support for the less secure WEP and WPA options. Not all of them, but many.
Here I take a look at another insecure router technology, WPS (Wi-Fi protected setup) and how these new mesh routers deal with it.
WPS is an alternate way of gaining access to a Wi-Fi network that does away with having to know the SSID (network name) and password. Much of what you read about WPS is incomplete, as it supports at least four different modes of operation.
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Credit to Author: Thomas Reed| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 18:00:07 +0000
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| Most Mac malware tends to be unsophisticated. Although it has some rather unpolished and awkward aspects, a new piece of Mac malware, dubbed OSX.Dok, breaks out of that typical mold. Categories: Tags: AppleDokument.zipmacmacOSmalwareOSX.Dokphishing |
The post New OSX.Dok malware intercepts web traffic appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 11:20:00 -0700
The recent wave of new mesh router systems has brought with it changes besides the obvious increase in Wi-Fi range. For example, these mesh routers are more likely to insist on WPA2-AES encryption, as many have dropped support for the less secure WEP and WPA options. Not all of them, but many.
Here I take a look at another insecure router technology, WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) and how these new mesh routers deal with it.
WPS is an alternate way of gaining access to a Wi-Fi network that does away with having to know the SSID (network name) and password. Much of what you read about WPS is incomplete, as it supports at least four different modes of operation.
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 10:40:00 -0700
As self-driving cars become more advanced with a greater number of onboard computers, sensors, cameras and WiFi, the amount of data is expected to balloon, providing automakers, insurers and others with rich information to harvest.
A single autonomous car could generate as much as 100GB of data every second, said Barclays analyst Brian Johnson, in a note published Wednesday.
BarclaysIf extrapolated out to the entire U.S. fleet of vehicles — 260 million in number — autonomous cars and trucks could potentially produce about 5,800 exabytes, Johnson stated.
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