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Credit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 15:37:19 +0000
Folk tales are a fount of wisdom, but not many would use them to teach children the basics of information security. Well, you could!
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 13:06:03 +0000
Data breaches keep on coming. Here’s what you can do to stay ahead of the hackers Money makes the world go around. It’s the glue that holds our society together and the engine that drives our economy. But it’s also coveted by a growing global population of highly resourceful and determined cyber-criminals. They’re out to…
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Facebook’s plans to launch its own Libra cryptocurrency next year is getting resistance from France and Germany who have promised to block it and plan to create their own national cryptocurrencies.
Last week, the two nations said Libra could threaten the Euro’s value and unlawfully privatize money. Last year, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the country’s central bank, announced a ban on the use of cryptocurrencies by any regulated financial entity because of risks associated with it.
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2019 03:00:00 -0700
User comes to this support pilot fish complaining that his PC is acting strangely.
“It turns out he had gotten his computer so jammed up with spyware and Trojans that it was basically nonfunctional,” says fish. “We had to rebuild the computer from scratch.” They were able to recover much of user’s work and files, but some were irretrievably damaged — or just plain gone .
Fish explains what happened and points out the probable infection vectors. And he explains that they had recovered as much as they could, but some stuff was simply gone for good. There would be no way to get anything more.
“Two days later, he called to ask when I’m going to bring him the rest of his missing files.”
Attackers are now enabling WDigest credential caching to allow them to harvest credentials. Here’s how to spot it.
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000
At the Defcon hacking conference next year, the Air Force will bring a satellite for fun and glory.
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Credit to Author: Lauren Smiley| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000
Karen Navarra was a quiet woman in her sixties who lived alone. She was found beaten to death. The neighbors didn’t see anything. But her Fitbit did.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2019 14:00:00 +0000
In a new memoir and interview, the world’s most famous whistle-blower elucidates as never before why he stood up to mass surveillance—and his love for an internet that no longer exists.
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