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Credit to Author: Gilad Edelman| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 21:17:51 +0000
It really is the closest thing we have to an online public square—and that’s terrible for democracy. Let his takeover bid be a wakeup call.
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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:40:00 -0700
This week’s Patch Tuesday release was huge, diverse, risky, and urgent, with late update arrivals for Microsoft browsers (CVE-2022-1364) and two zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Windows (CVE-2022-26809 and CVE-2022-24500). Fortunately, Microsoft has not released any patches for Microsoft Exchange, but this month we do have to deal with more Adobe (PDF) printing related vulnerabilities and associated testing efforts. We have added the Windows and Adobe updates to our “Patch Now” schedule, and will be watching closely to see what happens with any further Microsoft Office updates.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2022 15:05:22 +0000
More than just group DMs, WhatsApp’s new feature is a major expansion of its comprehensive encrypted messaging.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Ukraine claims to have doxed Russian troops and spies, while hacktivists are regularly leaking private information from Russian organizations.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2022 09:41:00 -0700
Apple CEO Tim Cook this week warned that regulators are on the edge of making poor decisions that will impact our future during a passionate speech in defense of personal privacy and his company’s business models at the Global Privacy Summit in Washington DC.
The thrust of Cook’s argument is that privacy and security are essential building blocks of trust for a technologically advanced society. But that huge potential is being constrained by surveillance and insecurity.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 14:44:39 +0000
The attack was the first in five years to use Sandworm’s Industroyer malware, which is designed to automatically trigger power disruptions.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000
DuckDuckGo started out as a private search engine. Now its web browser is debuting on Macs to rival Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Brave.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Lapsus$ hackers leaked Microsoft’s Bing and Cortana source code. How bad is that, really?
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