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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 04:25:00 -0800

In a sidelong slap at the business model of Facebook, Google and others, Apple CEO Tim Cook has published an article in which he urges the U.S. government to put surveillance capitalists/data brokers under transparent legal oversight.

Stand up for your rights

“In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy — yours, mine, all of ours.” Cook writes in an article for Time Magazine.

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January 17, 2019 admin

'We need new privacy laws' urges Apple CEO, Tim Cook

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 04:25:00 -0800

Stand up for your rights

“In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy – yours, mine, all of ours.” Cook writes in an article for Time Magazine.

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January 17, 2019 admin

'We need new privacy laws' urges Apple CO, Tim Cook

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 04:25:00 -0800

Stand up for your rights

“In 2019, it’s time to stand up for the right to privacy – yours, mine, all of ours.” Cook writes in an article for Time Magazine.

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January 15, 2019 admin

Exploring the economic realities of cybersecurity insurance | Salted Hash Ep 43

Guest host Juliet Beauchamp talks with senior writer J.M. Porup about the newly created cybersecurity insurance industry, and how a policy could fit into an organization's overall security strategy to help minimize risk.

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January 10, 2019 admin

How to create and open compressed files on iPhone, iPad

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:27:00 -0800

Many enterprises rely on zip files to exchange data, particularly confidential data – compression helps keep information safe, even against inquisitive ads trackers lurking inside “free” email or online storage services. How do you handle these things on iPad or iPhone?

How to handle zip files on iPhone

While it isn’t especially obvious, iOS provides some limited features that let you archive and decompress zip files. You can even create a nice little Shortcut to do this for you:

Open Shortcuts, Tap Create Shortcut
In the search bar, type Extract Archive: That shortcut should appear in the list below, tap it to add it to your workflow.
Returning to the search bar, type Save File. When it appears tap it to add it to the workflow you are building.
Tap the switch button at top right of the shortcut name
In the next pane you can name the shortcut and give it an icon. The most important change you should make is to enable Show in Share Sheet (flick to green).
You can create a second Shortcut to make archives. Just tupe Make Archive to find the relevant flow and then add Save File and Show in Share Sheet as decribed above. Don’t forget to give it a name, such as Make Archive.
Shortcuts can work with multiple compression formats, including .tar, .zip and .iso.

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January 9, 2019 admin

Enterprise iPhones will soon be able to use security dongles

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:25:00 -0800

Enterprise security professionals will be pleased to learn that it will soon be possible to enhance the already considerable device security of Apple’s iPhones with hardware-based physical authentication dongles using the Lightning port.

A highly secure proposition

Announced at CES 2019, the key fits on a keyring and comes from the authorization experts at Yubico. The hardware connects to iOS systems using the Lightning connection and is also equipped with USB-C for Macs. This is quite a big deal.

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January 9, 2019 admin

Details, details

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800

It’s a few years after Y2K when the IT security team at this university gets a rude awakening, reports a pilot fish in the know.

“They discovered that persons unknown had hacked into a university server,” fish says. “It was being used to launch denial-of-service attacks against a victim somewhere outside the university.”

The team’s first job is finding the server — which turns out to be in the alumni office — and taking it offline.

Then they start digging into the security logs. That’s when they find out that the attackers have been making use of the server for more than a year.

And once they start checking on the IP addresses of whoever it is that has accessed the server, they discover it’s not just one or two hackers. It seems people from all over the world have been using this server to launch attacks.

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