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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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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.”
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:03:32 +0000
The Facebook-owned messaging company is taking on a notorious malware vendor in what could be an uphill battle.
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Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution could enable a man-in-the-middle attack, so it’s best to disable the protocol when setting up Windows Server 2019.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:18:00 -0700
October started out on an extraordinarily low note. On Oct. 3, Microsoft released an “out of band” security update to protect all Windows users from an Internet Explorer scripting engine bug, CVE-2019-1367, once thought to be an imminent danger to all things (and all versions) Windows.
It was the third attempt to fix that security hole and each of the versions brought its own set of bugs.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:59:17 +0000
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant now all give you ways to opt out of human transcription of your voice snippets. Do it.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:00:19 +0000
Fancy Bear has attacked 16 anti-doping agencies around the world, indicating that its Olympics grudge is far from over.
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Credit to Author: Insider Pro staff| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:59:00 -0700
Insider Pro is teaming up with CertNexus to offer subscribers access to an online course that leads to a Certified IoT Security Practitioner (CIoTSP) certification.
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