The Internet’s Horrifying Way to Get Google Apps on Huawei Phones
Credit to Author: Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Just make a Chinese website your device’s remote administrator. It’ll be fine!
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Throwback Thursday: Everybody gets an F
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 03:00:00 -0700
As the IT communications manager at this university, pilot fish is the person who sends out memos about IT policy to users. And he does just that when a phishing email starts circulating on campus.
Never send your user name and password to anyone via email, he warns them, and to give them an example of what to look out for, he pastes in the text of the phishing attempt.
Within minutes, his inbox is flooded with responses from students sending him their campus passwords, their Gmail passwords, their Yahoo passwords and more.
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Explained: security orchestration
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 19:20:10 +0000
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| Security orchestration is a regulator that makes sure security solutions, often from different vendors, work well together to automate response and keep organizations safe. Categories: Tags: automated threat responseIncident Responseincident response protocolsorchestrationsecuritysecurity orchestrationsiemsoar |
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Read MoreHow Incognito Google Maps Protects You—and How It Doesn’t
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:17:11 +0000
Turning on the new Incognito Mode in Google Maps won’t make you as invisible as it might sound.
Read MoreBlind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy
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.
Read MoreTime to install Microsoft's mainstream September patches – and avoid the dregs
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.
Post-retirement Windows 7 patches: Not just for the big dogs now
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.
How to safely erase data under Windows
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.