How Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey’s Account Was Hacked
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:56:41 +0000
Like so many Twitter attacks lately, it was a SIM swap.
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An Unprecedented iPhone Hack, a Wi-Fi Leg Implant, and More News
Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:03:34 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
Read MoreMysterious iOS Attack Changes Everything We Know About iPhone Hacking
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:01:56 +0000
For two years, a handful of websites have indiscriminately hacked thousands of iPhones.
Read MoreMicrosoft Patch Alert: Full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:27:00 -0700
What happens when Microsoft releases eight – count ‘em, eight – concurrent beta test versions of Win10 version 1909 without fixing bugs introduced into 1903 on Patch Tuesday?
Pan. De. Moaaan. Ium.
The VB/VBA/VBScript debacle
No doubt, you recall the first wave of pain inflicted by the August 2019 patching regimen. Microsoft somehow managed to mess up Visual Basic (an old custom programming language), Visual Basic for Applications (for Office macros) and VBScript (a largely forgotten language primarily used inside Internet Explorer). Folks running applications in any of those languages would, on occasion, receive “invalid procedure call error” messages when using apps that had been working for decades.
VLAN as an additional security layer
Credit to Author: Leonid Grustniy| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:52:13 +0000
Some employees handle lots of external e-mails, running the risk of getting hit by malicious spam. We explain how to protect company systems from possible infection.
Read MoreEverything We Know About the Capital One Hacking Case So Far
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 18:48:20 +0000
A new indictment against alleged Capital One hacker Paige Thompson includes a few fresh details about the case.
Read MoreWhat the Jetflicks and iStreamItAll Takedowns Mean for Piracy
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000
In a sweeping indictment, the feds came down hard on two unauthorized streaming services that allegedly crossed a very important line.
Read MoreHedera Hashgraph launches mainnet, hopes to compete with global business networks
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2019 05:00:00 -0700
Hedera Hashgraph, an electronic public ledger developed for corporate use, launched its mainnet beta today, allowing developers to create an account and build decentralized applications (dApps) for it.
The distributed ledger technology (DLT) is a direct competitor to blockchain distributed ledgers such as Ethereum and Hyperledger, and claims it can outperform traditional financial and business networks.
“There is no direct equivalent to Hedera Hashgraph today,” said Martha Bennett, a principal analyst at Forrester Research. Hedera is potentially competing with public networks and all the enterprise DLT frameworks (such as Hyperledger Fabric & Sawtooth, R3 Corda, and others) and their commercial providers, which include AWS, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle.