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Cybersecurity for journalists: How to defeat threat actors and defend freedom of the press

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:26:48 +0000

When it comes to cybersecurity, journalists need to protect themselves, their sources, and the freedom of the press. Which methods should they use?

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With a few exceptions, all’s clear to install Microsoft’s October patches

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:54:00 -0700

If you had automatic update turned on at the beginning of October, you got clobbered with a bug-infested, out-of-band update for an IE-related zero-day that never appeared in real life. Later in the month, those with automatic update turned on were treated to a wide assortment of bugs (Start and Search fails, RDP redlines, older Visual Basic program blasts) – only some of which were solved with the month’s final, optional, non-security patches.

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This Week in Security News: Pwn2Own Adds Industrial Control Systems to Hacking Contest and Cyber Crooks Target ESports

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:05:25 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Among news from this week, learn about Pwn2Own’s new hacking contest that will take place in Miami next year. Also, as October was Cybersecurity Awareness Month, read about best…

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What’s new in macOS Catalina ‘Security and Privacy’?

Credit to Author: Amrapali Nimgire| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:17:53 +0000

Apple released macOS 10.15 (Catalina) on 7th Oct 2019 and now it is publicly available for download. With multiple features presented at the WWDC 2019, here’s an overview of the new security and privacy features introduced in Catalina. Enhanced Gatekeeper Gatekeeper, is an important outer layer of security, designed to…

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Google strengthens Chrome's site isolation to protect browser against its own vulnerabilities

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:49:00 -0700

Google is telling Chrome users that it has extended an advanced defensive technology to protect against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in the browser’s Blink rendering engine.

Chrome 77, which launched in September but was supplanted by Chrome 78 on Oct. 22, received the beefed-up site isolation, wrote Alex Moshchuk and Łukasz Anforowicz, two Google software engineers, in an Oct. 17 post to a company blog. “Site Isolation in Chrome 77 now helps defend against significantly stronger attacks,” the two said. “Site Isolation can now handle even severe attacks where the renderer process is fully compromised via a security bug, such as memory corruption bugs or Universal Cross-Site Scripting (UXSS) logic errors.”

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