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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:04:26 +0000
VxWorks is designed as a secure, “real-time” operating system for continuously functioning devices, like medical equipment, elevator controllers, or satellite modems.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Former White House top cybersecurity official Tom Bossert reveals his new startup, Trinity. Its focus: “active threat inference.”
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:51:00 -0700
News that Siri records snippets of our conversations with the voice assistant isn’t new, but claims that those short recordings are listened to by human agents is– particularly in light of the company’s big push on privacy.
I’m a passionate believer in the importance of privacy.
It isn’t only important in terms of preserving hard-won liberties and protecting public discourse, it’s also of growing importance across every part of human existence, for every school, medical facility or enterprise. History shows that the absence of privacy has a corrosive effect on society, turning family members against each other and dampening innovation.
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 14:06:36 +0000
Cybercriminals and malicious hackers have been shifting their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to improve their ability to infiltrate an organization and stay under the radar of security professionals and solutions. Moving to more targeted attack methods appears to be a mainstay among threat actors, which requires organizations to improve their visibility into the entire…
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Russian election hacks, Amazon’s police partnerships, and more security news this week.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 17:09:06 +0000
A settlement with the FTC means Equifax will pay victims of its breach $125 or more. Make sure they pay up.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Pawan Kinger (Director, Deep Security Labs)| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 13:42:36 +0000
On July 14th, 2015, Microsoft’s widely deployed Windows Server 2003 reached end of life after nearly 12 years of support. For millions of enterprise servers, this meant the end of security updates, leaving the door open to serious security risks. Now, we are fast approaching the end of life of another server operating system –…
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 03:00:00 -0700
Mozilla has issued multiple after-action reports analyzing the major mix-up in May that crippled most Firefox add-ons. The reports also made recommendations for preventing similar incidents in the future.
The fiasco started just after 8 p.m. ET on Friday, May 3, when a certificate used to digitally sign Firefox extensions expired. Because Mozilla had neglected to renew the certificate, Firefox assumed add-ons could not be trusted – that they were potentially malicious – and disabled any already installed. Add-ons could not be added to the browser for the same reason.