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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:56:51 +0000
“Off-Facebook Activity” will give users more control over their data, but Facebook needs up to 48 hours to aggregate your information into a format it can share with advertisers.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Rik Ferguson (VP, Security Research)| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:50:09 +0000
Of course, the much-touted “Cybersecurity Skills Shortage” isn’t news to anyone, or it shouldn’t be. For seven or more years, journalists, industry analysts and practitioners have been opining about it one way or another. Analyses and opinions vary on how we have reached this impasse, my own being that this is a largely self-inflicted crisis…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:05:06 +0000
As new mobile malware sweeps the globe, here’s how to keep your device secure. We’re spending more and more of our lives online and for most of us the door to this digital world is our smartphone. It’s the first thing we look at when we wake up and the last thing we check at…
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Several new vulnerability disclosures in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol suggest it’s time to stop using it. Here’s how.
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:53:00 -0700
The WebKit project – the open-source initiative that generates code for Apple’s Safari browser – quietly announced last week that it would follow in Mozilla’s footsteps and quash tracking technologies designed to follow users across the web.
In a short message on Aug. 14, the WebKit team pointed to its new Tracking Prevention Policy, a document that spells out its plans in detail, including what types of tracking it will create and how it will deal with any side effects.
“We have implemented or intend to implement technical protections in WebKit to prevent all tracking practices included in this policy,” the document read. “If we discover additional tracking techniques, we may expand this policy to include the new techniques and we may implement technical measures to prevent those techniques.”
Credit to Author: Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:00:00 +0000
A coordinated strike against 23 local governments is called the largest such hack from a single source.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000
First promised back in January, the first YubiKey for iOS will help cut down on painful password clutter starting… now.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 22:48:46 +0000
Twitter and Facebook say they’ve taken down misinformation campaigns from China that cast pro-democracy activists as ISIS members and cockroaches.
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