Independent – Page 144 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 03:00:00 -0700

As more blockchain-based payment networks and fiat-backed digital currencies – including one from the largest U.S. bank – emerge, experts and analysts are predicting a sea change for the financial services industry.

“I think you’re starting to see a growing consensus,” said Matt Savare, a partner who works in the technology group of New Jersey-based law firm of Lowenstein Sandler LLP. “I do quite a bit of FinTech and I can tell you my clients… the banks, are inherently conservative – at least the large ones. But once they see other banks adopt new technologies, you see it snowball. Other banks will often join on in pretty quick fashion.”

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March 25, 2019 admin

How blockchain is becomming the 5G of the payment industry

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 03:00:00 -0700

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March 22, 2019 admin

Alleged Child Porn Lord Faces US Extradition

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2019 19:32:39 +0000

In 2013, the FBI exploited a zero-day vulnerability in Firefox to seize control over a Dark Web network of child pornography sites. The alleged owner of that ring – 33-year-old Freedom Hosting operator Eric Eoin Marques – was arrested in Ireland later that year on a U.S. warrant and has been in custody ever since. This week, Ireland’s Supreme Court cleared the way for Marques to be extradited to the United States.

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March 21, 2019 admin

Facebook Stored Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords in Plain Text for Years

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 15:17:55 +0000

Hundreds of millions of Facebook users had their account passwords stored in plain text and searchable by thousands of Facebook employees — in some cases going back to 2012, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Facebook says an ongoing investigation has so far found no indication that employees have abused access to this data.

ComputerWorld Independent

March 20, 2019 admin

How to audit Windows Task Scheduler to detect attacks

Learn how to prevent attackers from using Task Scheduler to hide and set up tasks to access Windows systems.

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March 19, 2019 admin

Heavenly tech support

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 03:00:00 -0700

Pilot fish is helping his pastor fine-tune the church LAN when he notices that the day-care facility next door has a wide-open and unsecured Wi-Fi connection.

Fish’s pastor wants to connect to the day-care center’s printer and print a document saying, “This is from your neighbors. You need to tighten the security on your Wi-Fi.”

Fish suggests that they instead print a document that says, “This is from God. You need to go to church. There’s a really nice one right next door.”

“Too bad the pastor overruled me,” says fish.

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March 18, 2019 admin

Slack rolls out enterprise key management, but has no plans for end-to-end encryption

Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:28:00 -0700

Slack has given large business customers control over the keys used to encrypt and decrypt data created in its team collaboration application.

The enterprise key management (EKM) feature was initially unveiled at the company’s Frontiers event in San Francisco in September, ahead of a closed pilot project; it is now available to all customers of Enterprise Grid, which is targeted at company-wide deployments at large organizations.

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March 17, 2019 admin

Why Phone Numbers Stink As Identity Proof

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2019 23:25:06 +0000

Phone numbers stink for security and authentication. They stink because most of us have so much invested in these digits that they’ve become de facto identities. At the same time, when you lose control over a phone number — maybe it’s hijacked by fraudsters, you got separated or divorced, or you were way late on your phone bill payments — whoever inherits that number can then be you in a lot of places online.