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Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 09:50:00 -0700

Slack has overhauled its desktop software, adding offline access and tweaking the software for faster load times.

Recent efforts to improve the desktop app were highlighted at Slack Frontiers last year and the coming update – which the company says will launch 33% faster than before – will be available to users “over the next few weeks.”

Calls made to team mates via the app should be a speedier too, up to 10 times quicker, Slack said. “That could mean the difference between showing up to a meeting on time or not,” the company said in a blog post Monday. “These moments saved can quickly add up, giving you more time to focus on the tasks at hand.”

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Security Wired

July 20, 2019 admin

Browser Extensions Scraped Data From Millions of People

Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Slack passwords, NSO spyware, and more of the week’s top security news.

Security Wired

July 20, 2019 admin

The App Creeping on Your IG Location, Jakarta’s Insurance Crisis, and More News

Credit to Author: Lydia Horne| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 23:58:24 +0000

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

Security Wired

July 19, 2019 admin

The FaceApp Privacy Panic, a Mysterious Satellite Outage, and More News

Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 22:52:00 +0000

Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.

Security TrendMicro

July 19, 2019 admin

This Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Mobile Malware

Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:35:00 +0000

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a mobile malware that infects Android devices by exploiting the vulnerabilities found within the operating system. Also, read about a recent spam campaign that targets…

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ComputerWorld Independent

July 19, 2019 admin

What is the dark web? And what will you find there?

The dark web may sound ominous, but it’s really a catch-all term for the part of the internet that isn't indexed by search engines. Stay tuned for a guided tour of the web's less mainstream regions.

Security Wired

July 18, 2019 admin

Europe’s Galileo Satellite Outage Serves as a Warning

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 18:36:10 +0000

The dramatic EU Galileo outage underscores the threat of satellite timing and navigation system failures.

ComputerWorld Independent

July 18, 2019 admin

How and why Apple users should switch to DuckDuckGo for search

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 07:54:00 -0700

Like liberty for all, privacy demands vigilance, and that’s why Apple users who care about either are moving to DuckDuckGo for search.

Why use DuckDuckGo?

Privacy is under attack.

It doesn’t take much effort to prove this truth. At time of writing, recent news is full of creeping privacy erosion:

We’ve seen video conferencing solutions that surreptitiously install software on your Macs;
A face changing photography app perhaps implicated in the assembly of a vast database of faces;
Ahousehold name in smart speakers sharing your private conversations with people you don’t know, including chatter you didn’t know was recorded in the first place.

And then there’s Duck Duck Go.

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