Cellebrite Now Says It Can Unlock Any iPhone for Cops
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 22:05:12 +0000
In a strangely public product announcement, the phone-cracking firm revealed a powerful new device.
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Hackers Target US Power, Amazon Clones a Neighborhood, and More News
Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 20:16:53 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
Read MoreThe Highly Dangerous ‘Triton’ Hackers Have Probed the US Grid
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000
The same hackers behind a potentially lethal 2017 oil refinery cyberattack are now sniffing at US electrical utility targets.
Read MoreThis Week in Security News: Spam Campaigns and Cryptocurrency Miners
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2019 13:25:23 +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 advanced targeted attack tools being used to distribute cryptocurrency miners as well as a spam campaign targeting European users. Read on: Advanced Targeted Attack Tools…
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Read MoreGoogle’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.
Read MoreWWDC: 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.
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