Saturday, October 17, 2026
Latest:

Computer Security Articles

RSS Reader for Computer Security Articles

Author: admin

IndependentKrebs
admin

Apple Explains Mysterious iPhone 11 Location Requests

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:46:02 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity ran a story this week that puzzled over Apple’s response to inquiries about a potential privacy leak in its new iPhone 11 line, in which the devices appear to intermittently seek the user’s location even when all applications and system services are individually set never to request this data. Today, Apple disclosed that this behavior is tied to the inclusion of a new short-range technology that lets iPhone 11 users share files locally with other nearby phones that support this feature, and that a future version of its mobile operating system will allow users to disable it.

Read More
ScadaICSSchneider
admin

In product data, we trust: the need for a “centralized digital version of the truth” for packaged products

Credit to Author: Marilidia Clotteau| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 13:00:42 +0000

Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) is a $1.3 trillion sector still dominated by traditional channels. But, according to the World Economic Forum, online sales will grow from around 10% today to 40%… Read more »

The post In product data, we trust: the need for a “centralized digital version of the truth” for packaged products appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Read More
ScadaICSSchneider
admin

Advice from an Indonesia country finalist: Schneider Go Green student competition

Credit to Author: Guest Blogger| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2019 19:12:04 +0000

Believing in your bold ideas to change the world Hi, my name is Jessica. I am a final year Chemical Engineering student at the University of Indonesia and the Schneider… Read more »

The post Advice from an Indonesia country finalist: Schneider Go Green student competition appeared first on Schneider Electric Blog.

Read More
MagazineSecurityVirusBulletin
admin

VB2019 paper: The push from fiction for increased surveillance, and its impact on privacy

In a paper presented at VB2019 in London, researchers Miriam Cihodariu (Heimdal Security) and Andrei Bogdan Brad (Code4Romania) looked at how surveillance is represented in fiction and how these representations are shaping people’s attitudes to surveillance in current legal debates. Today we publish both their paper and the recording of Miriam presenting the paper in London.

Read more

Read More
MalwareBytesSecurity
admin

Report: Organizations remain vulnerable to increasing insider threats

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The risk and challenges insider threats pose to organizations are ever present, even before tech as we know it existed. The age of digitization only made it higher and far-reaching. How has insider threats evolved over time? Where are we now in terms of mitigating insider threat risk? Are businesses really doing something about it? We answer such questions—and more—in this post.

Categories:

Tags:

(Read more…)

The post Report: Organizations remain vulnerable to increasing insider threats appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Read More
ComputerWorldIndependent
admin

All’s clear to install Microsoft’s November patches

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 07:46:00 -0800

The November passel of patches didn’t include anything earth-shattering; there were no emergency security breaches storming the gates, but good patching hygiene dictates that you get your machine braced for the next round.

If you install patches manually one by one (“Group B,” which I don’t recommend for mere mortals), you need to make sure you have the proper Servicing Stack Updates in place. They’ve all changed in the past month.

To read this article in full, please click here

Read More