Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 18:15:00 +0000
Apple has known about the vulnerability, which also affects iPadOS 15 and Safari 15, since late November.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 17:11:58 +0000
Austria’s data regulator has found that the use of Google Analytics is a breach of GDPR. In the absence of a new EU-US data deal, other countries may follow.
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Credit to Author: Ed Tittel| Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800
Look around a typical Windows desktop. Whether it’s running Windows 10 or 11, chances are that it’s running at least a couple of dozen Windows applications (.exe files), and at least four dozen Microsoft Store apps. On my local fleet of 10 PCs, the range for applications is from a low of 24 to a high of 120; for Store apps, it ranges from 49 to 81. Such numbers are quite typical, if my online research is at all accurate.
In general, it’s considered good security practice to keep apps and applications up-to-date. Why? Because many updates involve security patches and fixes that block potential attacks and prevent unauthorized and unwanted access to applications and their data (and sometimes, the host OS and the PCs they run on). In this story, I will offer some tools to help you streamline this process, along with some instructions on how to put them to work to help you keep your apps and applications current and safe.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 17:04:27 +0000
The flaws are now fixed, but speak to the growing concerns around interactionless attacks.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 09:28:00 -0800
Most technologists understand that end-to-end encryption in messaging keeps people safe and empowers commerce. But the UK government is launching a publicity blitz to have that layer of protection removed.
The decision will affect every nation the UK does business with, including those that still value the right to privacy and free speech.
Rolling Stone reports the UK has developed an emotive ad campaign around child safety to build support for its argument. Of course, this campaign comes nowhere near addressing the threat to free speech, commerce, or privacy in such a move. Naturally, the reaction across most of the tech industry has been a series of shared oaths as people who know about this stuff ask: “Do we have to explain this again?”
Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 14:29:05 +0000
We explore what a smartphone's ToF sensor is, and how it can help locate spy cameras, with help from Singaporean researchers.
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Credit to Author: Susan Bradley| Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 03:42:00 -0800
Do you feel more secure? Is your computing experience more trustworthy these days?
Seriously — you’re reading this article on a computer or phone, connecting to this site on an internet shared with your Grandma as well as Russian hackers, North Korean attackers, and lots of teenagers looking at TikTok videos. It’s been 20 years since then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates wrote his Trustworthy Computing memo where he emphasized security in the company’s products.
So are we actually more secure now?
I’m going to keep in mind the side effects from last week’s Patch Tuesday security updates and consider them in my answer. First, the good news: I don’t see major side effects occurring on PCs not connected to active directory domains (and I haven’t seen any showstoppers in testing my hardware at home). I can still print to my local HP and Brother printers. I can surf and access files. So, while I’m not ready yet to give an all-clear to install the January updates, when I do, I doubt you’ll see side effects.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2022 15:02:25 +0000
A data wiper posing as ransomware bears a discomfiting resemblance to the earlier wave of Russian cyberattacks that ended with NotPetya.
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