The Android 10 Privacy and Security Upgrades You Should Know About
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Google’s next big Android release will make you safer—especially in ways you can’t see.
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Shh! No Hacking the Census in the Library
Credit to Author: Leeza Garber| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Opinion: Millions of folks filling out the 2020 Census on public library computers also are putting themselves at risk.
Read MoreThrowback Thursday: Eyes only
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Programmer pilot fish goes online to a message board for a development system that’s used for one of his company’s applications.
But he gets a message that the site is blocked. He can either forget about it, click a link to continue, or click a link to see the company’s access policy.
He clicks to continue, gets what he needs, and then, just out of curiosity, he clicks to see the access policy to get an idea of why this site is being blocked.
But instead of seeing the access policy, fish sees this message: Content blocked. Click here to access our internet resource policy.
Sputters baffled fish, “It actually blocked the policy!”
Firefox and Chrome Fight Back Against Kazakhstan’s Spying
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000
The Central Asian country’s government has repeatedly threatened to monitor its citizens’ internet activities. Google and Mozilla aren’t having it.
Read MoreFacebook’s New Privacy Feature Comes With a Loophole
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 MoreThe Sky Has Already Fallen (you just haven’t seen the alert yet)
Credit 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 MoreFAKE APPS!—courtesy of Agent Smith
Credit 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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Read MoreHow to avoid using RDP in Windows
Several new vulnerability disclosures in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol suggest it’s time to stop using it. Here’s how.