Google’s Push to Close a Major Encrypted Web Loophole
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:26:02 +0000
By building security into top-level domains, Google makes it harder for HTTPS to fall short.
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WWDC: Apple’s iOS 13 NFC improvements are good for business
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 07:08:00 -0700
Apple will make NFC much more useful in iPhones running iOS 13, and these enhancements will impact the retail, medical, government and security industries.
What is Apple changing?
Apple already uses NFC to support Apple Pay and the Apple Pay Express Transit system which is rolling out at this time.
While it has incrementally extended the tasks NFC supports over the years, the company has limited its NFC support to the NDEF standard until now, but extends this with support for new standards in its Core NFC Framework in iOS 13.
Microsoft is better at documenting patch problems, but issues abound
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 03:55:00 -0700
I don’t know about you, but I’ve given up on Microsoft’s ability to deliver reliable patches. Month after month, we’ve seen big bugs and little bugs pushed and pulled and squished and re-squished. You can see a chronology from the past two years in my patching whack-a-mole columns starting here.
For the past few months, though, we’ve seen some improvement. Microsoft has started identifying and publicly acknowledging big bugs, shortly after they’re pushed. Consider:
Google Says It Won’t Kill Ad Blockers. Ad Blockers Disagree
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 17:11:26 +0000
Upcoming changes to Chrome has left ad blockers up in arms. But Google insists it won’t stifle the extensions.
Read MoreJigsaw Bought a Russian Twitter Troll Campaign as an Experiment
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 14:12:12 +0000
In a controversial move, the Alphabet-owned tech firm played both sides of an online argument in Russia with the aim of testing disinformation-for-hire services.
Read MoreCloudflare’s Five-Year Project to Protect Nonprofits Online
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 13:00:00 +0000
The company’s Project Galileo has helped organizations fend off DDoS and other attacks for the last five years.
Read MoreThe Next Big Privacy Hurdle? Teaching AI to Forget
Credit to Author: Darren Shou| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000
Opinion: The inability to forget doesn’t only impact personal privacy—it could also lead to real problems for our global security.
Read MoreRadiohead Gets ‘Hacked,’ a T-Mobile/Sprint Hiccup, and More News
Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 22:46:22 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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