Independent – Page 190 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 04:00:00 -0700

For many companies, GDPR has become a four-letter acronym.

The European Union’s new General Data Protection Rule – which applies to virtually any kind of data that can be used to identify a person – goes into effect May 25. And companies around the world are rushing to make sure they’re in compliance, or at least can demonstrate that they’re hard at work trying to meet the EU demands.

GDPR is designed to protect personal privacy, (hopefully) make companies more secure from data breaches and force them to get their collective hands around all the data they collect, use and distribute.

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 18, 2018 admin

Tech Talk: Prepping for GDPR

CSO's Michael Nadeau and Steve Ragan join Computerworld's Ken Mingis and IDG Communications' Mark Lewis to look at what the new EU privacy rules means. They offer insights on how companies can prepare – and what happens if they don't.

Independent Krebs

May 17, 2018 admin

Tracking Firm LocationSmart Leaked Location Data for Customers of All Major U.S. Mobile Carriers Without Consent in Real Time Via Its Web Site

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 18:29:18 +0000

LocationSmart, a U.S. based company that acts as an aggregator of real-time data about the precise location of mobile phone devices, has been leaking this information to anyone via a buggy component of its Web site — without the need for any password or other form of authentication or authorization — KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The company took the vulnerable service offline early this afternoon after being contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, which verified that it could be used to reveal the location of any AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile or Verizon phone in the United States to an accuracy of within a few hundred yards.

ComputerWorld Independent

May 17, 2018 admin

Patch update: Monthly Rollup previews arrive for Win7, 8.1, along with updates for Win10 1607, 1703

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 12:22:00 -0700

We just got a smattering of patches that seem to be in the “Oh yeah, we forgot” bucket. Windows 7 and 8.1 received Previews (which you should never install, of course). Win10 1607 (out of support for Home and Pro on April 10) and 1703 got the usual laundry list of minor fixes.

I bet Win10 1709 and 1803 updates will be out soon.

Here’s the roundup:

KB 4103713 – Win7 Monthly Rollup preview. Doesn’t solve the network driver uninstallation bug, but does add a new “SMB1 access auditing on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.” You have to turn on the auditing with a registry change.

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 17, 2018 admin

Solving a blockchain conundrum: Biometrics could recover lost encryption keys

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 03:11:00 -0700

Blockchain could one day solve the online privacy problem by encrypting or scrambling personally identifiable information and issuing each person a random string of bits – a private key – created explicitly for unscrambling their data.

The person holding the blockchain private key could issue various public keys controlling who has access to the personal data on the blockchain. So, for instance, if a car rental agency needed to verify you have a driver’s license, you could use a public key to give them access to that information.

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 16, 2018 admin

Lots of little Microsoft patches, but nothing for this month’s big bugs — and no Previews

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 06:32:00 -0700

Third Tuesday of the month and it’s time for bug fixes and Monthly Rollup Previews, right?

Well, no. May’s Third Tuesday brought a big bag of .Net Framework Previews, microcode patches for Win10 1803 and Server 2016, and a Win10 1803 upgrade nag, but no respite at all for the major problems introduced by this month’s earlier patches.

The .Net Framework Previews

Unless you’re testing your own .Net-based software to make sure it won’t explode next month, you don’t need to think about these. There’s the usual assortment of Previews for .Net Framework 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, 4.5.2, 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7 and 4.7.1 for all the usual versions of Windows and Server.

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 16, 2018 admin

What an Apple phishing attack looks like | Salted Hash Ep 32

How can you tell the difference between a legitimate email and a phishing attack? Host Steve Ragan shows what an Apple phishing attack looks like, screen by screen, showing the difference between the real and the fake.

ComputerWorld Independent

May 16, 2018 admin

FAQ: How Edge's Application Guard and isolated browsing work

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 03:23:00 -0700

Microsoft two weeks ago quietly added a security feature to Windows 10 Pro that initially was available only in the operating system’s most expensive edition.

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