You Can Jailbreak Your iPhone Again (But Maybe You Shouldn’t)
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:53:49 +0000
Apple reintroduced a previously fixed bug in iOS 12.4, which has led to a jailbreak revival.
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Installing Windows 7 from a backup? You need a BitLocker patch right away
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:33:00 -0700
No doubt you recall the warning back in February that Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 patches starting in July would use the SHA-2 encryption protocol. If you want to install Win7 patches issued after July, you have to get the SHA-2 translator installed.
A few days ago, Microsoft tossed a zinger into the FAQs down at the bottom of its SHA-2 post, 2019 SHA-2 Code Signing Support requirement for Windows and WSUS. That post now says that you have to install a seemingly unrelated patch, KB 3133977, entitled, BitLocker can’t encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
I heard a bug in Kaspersky products could be used for spying. Is that true?
Credit to Author: Kaspersky Team| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 15:42:41 +0000
The truth about the recently discovered — and already fixed — bug in Kaspersky consumer products.
Read MoreHow Do Threats Align With Detection And Solutions?
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:05:16 +0000
There are many different threats targeting many different areas of a corporate network. Have you ever wondered how those threats are stopped? What threats impact which areas of a network? What technology detects and blocks those threats? I wanted to build an interactive graphic to answer those questions. This interactive infographic can help you understand…
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Read MoreXDR Is The Best Remedy As Attackers Increasingly Seek To Evade EDR
Credit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:22:58 +0000
Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the endpoints on their network….
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Read MoreA Brief History of Vanity License Plates Gone Wrong
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2019 11:00:00 +0000
The stories might sound unbelievable, but they’re all real—and a cautionary tale for anyone who wants to get clever at the DMV.
Read MoreFacebook’s Voice Transcripts Were More Invasive Than Amazon’s
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2019 13:00:00 +0000
The Capital One hacker, a Bluetooth vulnerability, and more of the week’s top security news.
Read MoreHow Facebook Catches Bugs in Its 100 Million Lines of Code
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 21:03:59 +0000
For the past four years, Facebook has quietly used a homegrown tool called Zoncolan to find bugs in its massive codebase.
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