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Credit to Author: Lukasz Olejnik| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000
Web pages are increasingly powerful—asking for notifications, webcam access, or location—but this great power comes with great vulnerabilities.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 13:00:00 +0000
If a site offers HTTPS, DuckDuckGo’s Smarter Encryption will take you there.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:12:03 +0000
It doesn’t take a wily prediction to see that the cycles of tech procurement and planning are increasingly compressed. In enterprise IT, the two largest forces at play are business changes and technology changes. These two major forces are somewhat independent; a lot of tech change happened during the last economic downturn, and in fact…
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 06:09:00 -0800
Although we’ve been promised no “C” or “D” week second cumulative updates for the rest of the year — at least for Windows — Microsoft has acknowledged a bug it created in last week’s Patch Tuesday Office patches, and now promises that it’ll update the bad fixes on most machines this week or next. Those are “C” week and “D” week, respectively.
The cause du jour: a bug in all of this month’s Office security patches that throws an error in Access saying, “Query xxxx is corrupt,” when in fact the query in question is just fine. Microsoft describes the erroneous error message on its Office Support site:
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:48:17 +0000
Endpoint protection is a critical component of a security strategy. But it’s not enough. Today’s threat landscape is so wide and varied, it requires round-the-clock monitoring, full visibility into IT environments and a multilayered approach to keep hackers at bay. For MSPs, this creates a sizable opportunity to protect clients with a comprehensive security strategy…
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Credit to Author: Caitlin Kelly| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 16:30:30 +0000
Despite automated systems and zero tolerance policies, it’s easy to find photos of the former representative weeks after they were published without her consent.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000
Bluetooth scanners are readily available and easy to use—which means that smash-and-grab car break-in might not have been pure chance.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 20:34:12 +0000
After years of centralizing internet control, Iran pulled the plug on connectivity for nearly all of its citizens.
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