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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Researchers have found a potential silver lining in so-called adversarial examples, using it to shield sensitive data from snoops.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:00:00 -0700
It’s a smelter-weight slapdown.
In one corner you have the Chicken Little contingent, which insists that September’s IE zero-day patch must be important because Microsoft marked it as “Exploited: Yes” and memorialized it with an extremely odd patch on a Monday, followed in Keystone Kops fashion with a stumbling trail of follow-ons.
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 05:29:00 -0700
Microsoft on Tuesday changed its plans for selling Windows 7 post-retirement support, saying that it will offer patches-for-a-price to any business, no matter how small, that’s willing to pay.
“Through January 2023, we will extend the availability of paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) to businesses of all sizes,” Jared Spataro, an executive in the Microsoft 365 group, wrote in a post to a company blog.
Microsoft had announced the ESU program in September 2018. Since April, when the company started selling ESU, only customers with volume licensing deals for Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows 10 Professional have been eligible to purchase the support add-on.
Bitlocker and self-encrypting hard drives can make it easier to erase data so that it cannot be recovered. This is how the “crypto-erase” method works.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:12:30 +0000
Nearly two decades ago, a company called Interpeak created a network protocol that became an industry standard. It also had severe bugs that are only now coming to light.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:16:00 -0700
So you think Windows 10 patching is getting better? Not if this month’s Keystone Kops reenactment is an indicator.
In a fervent frenzy, well-meaning but ill-informed bloggers, international news outlets, even little TV stations, enjoyed a hearty round of “The Windows sky is falling!” right after the local weather. It wasn’t. It isn’t – no matter what you may have read or heard.
Microsoft has a special way of telling folks how important its patches might be. Every individual security hole, listed by its CVE number, has an “Exploitability Assessment” consisting of:
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 13:00:00 +0000
A NotPetya lawsuit, bricked Mac Pros, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Two former intelligence community whistle-blowers say the life of whoever wrote the Trump-Ukraine complaint has been permanently altered.
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