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Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800
Facebook emerged from 2018 bruised from a series of revelations that undermined trust in the popular social media platform and raised questions about its commitment to privacy.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:39:00 -0800
Apple believes in your right to privacy. Here is some advice on how to use the tools it has given you to protect your privacy on an iOS device.
You probably already use a 4-digit passcode, but you can improve that with a 6-digit or alphanumeric code.
You change this in Settings>Touch ID/Face ID & Passcode, select Change Passcode and then tap the small Passcode Options dialog. Alphanumeric codes are harder to decipher, just make sure you remember the code.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 08:32:00 -0800
Matt Miller’s presentation at Blue Hat yesterday included some startling statistics, based on data gathered by Microsoft’s Security Response Center. The numbers starkly confirm what we’ve been saying for years: The chances of getting hit with malware by delaying Windows and Office patches for up to 30 days is tiny compared to all the other ways of getting clobbered.
Credit to Author: DealPost Team| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 11:11:00 -0800
The term “computer virus” calls to mind imagery of pathogenic creepy-crawlies bringing down a device’s operating system, their flagella wriggling as they multiply into hordes that infiltrate its chips and wires. And while it’s true that our computers can be infected with literal biological bacteria like staphylococci, per Science Illustrated, the threat of malicious codes and programs intent on corrupting data and files looms far larger: According to a recent study from the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering, attacks on computers with internet access is virtually ceaseless, with an incident occurring every 39 seconds on average, affecting a third of Americans every year.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:34:00 -0800
Apple takes privacy very seriously. It takes its leadership in that care seriously, and getting rid of the voluntary ‘Do Not Track’ setting in its Safari browser is the right decision.
Apple introduced support for Do Not Track (DNT) in iOS 7, but removed the feature in Safari 12.1.
The problem with DNT is that the signal it sends to websites, analytics firms, plug-in makers and ad networks is a voluntary request, and can be ignored.
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2019 03:00:00 -0800
This conglomerate is structured as several smaller companies, with a big central IT organization plus individual IT groups in some of the companies, reports an IT pilot fish there.
“An IT staffer from one of the companies loaded a password cracker and proceeded to crack the Windows NT servers,” fish says. “He sent out emails bragging about how insecure NT was and giving the NT team a hard time.”
Fish isn’t on the NT team, but he and his security co-workers decide to strike back on behalf of their colleagues — and they do it through the central IT audit group, to make sure it’s all above board.
First, they supply the audit people with a list of more than 100 Unix servers, and get them to pick a server at random. Amazingly, the audit group picks the only server on the list that belongs to the company where the NT attack originated.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2019 09:15:00 -0800
Compared to some months last year, January has been a Microsoft patching cakewalk. We had several rounds of close calls and missed calls, as I posted earlier this week, but almost everything is cleared up.
We’ve seen a few more problems raise their ugly heads in the past few days:
Those are typical Microsoft edge-use bugs: They don’t affect many people, but if you’re one of the stuckees, you’re up the ol’ creek.
Today's episode features more on Apple’s first-quarter report, news that Google and the Internet Advertising Bureau are profiling users, collaboration software spending, and more problems for Huawei.