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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:11:00 -0800
While blockchain appears ready to upend business processes and trust models across a myriad of industries, it’s still in its early days and the various iterations of the distributed ledger already in use are far from vetted.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:55:52 +0000
In May 2013 KrebsOnSecurity wrote about Ragebooter, a service that paying customers can use to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks capable of knocking individuals and Web sites offline. The owner of Ragebooter subsequently was convicted in 2016 of possessing child pornography, but his business somehow lived on while he was in prison. Now just weeks after Poland made probation, a mobile version of the attack-for-hire service has gone up for sale on the Google Play store.
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Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 14:15:00 -0800
When it comes to mobile devices, companies tend to like three things: solid security, ease-of-management and low cost.
With Apple’s iPhone X, it looks like you can check off two of those three items. The phone’s cutting-edge Face ID authentication system really does work. iOS 11 is easy to manage and inherently secure. But that last one – price – is a big one. The iPhone X starts at $999 for the 64GB model and goes to $1,149 for the 256GB version.
Credit to Author: Sarah Emerson| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 21:24:02 +0000
Former Twitter employees say many in the company have have long railed against its broken verification system.
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Credit to Author: Daniel Oberhaus| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 20:46:36 +0000
SESTA brings the clash between censorship and accountability online to the forefront of US politics.
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Credit to Author: Emanuel Maiberg| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:58:21 +0000
The secret-spilling organization launches a new series where it will release the source code of alleged CIA tools from the Vault 7 series.
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 09:36:00 -0800
Android security is always a hot topic on these here Nets of Inter — and almost always for the wrong reason.
As we’ve discussed ad nauseam over the years, most of the missives you read about this-or-that super-scary malware/virus/brain-eating-boogie-monster are overly sensationalized accounts tied to theoretical threats with practically zero chance of actually affecting you in the real world. If you look closely, in fact, you’ll start to notice that the vast majority of those stories stem from companies that — gasp! — make their money selling malware protection programs for Android phones. (Pure coincidence, right?)
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Credit to Author: Stephen Leahy| Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2017 17:35:51 +0000
An alliance including New York, Toronto, and London is challenging countries at COP23 to do more.
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