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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2019 04:22:00 -0700
Much has changed in the past month. We’ve seen an emergency cry for all Windows XP, Vista, Win7, Server 2003, 2008 and 2008 R2 systems to get patched in order to fend off widely anticipated BlueKeep attacks. We’ve also seen Microsoft officially release Windows 10 version 1903, with unsuspecting “seekers” now the prime targets.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 09 Jun 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Let’s be honest, you can’t kill robocalls completely. But you can block more of them than you might think.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Microsoft deletes its facial recognition database, hackers hit health care, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 16:26:01 +0000
A Google Cloud outage that knocked huge portions of the internet offline also blocked access to the tools Google needed to fix it.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 05:22:00 -0700
Apple introduced an array of additional privacy protections at WWDC 2019. Many of these both offer protection and help us better understand how our privacy is undermined.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is passionate about the need to protect user privacy and this is by no means a one man mission.
Speaking with Vector, Apple’s VP Software Technology, Bud Tribble stressed the need to educate people into the needs and benefits of privacy, a topic he believes is much more” widely discussed now than before.
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2019 13:05:10 +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 the new wormable malware that’s dropping a Monero miner in web servers, networks and removable drivers. Also, read about the best ways for businesses to…
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:43:00 -0700
Mozilla this week began to switch on an aggressive anti-tracking technology in Firefox that it has touted since 2015.
With a June 4 update to Firefox 67, Mozilla turned on Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) by default for new users. Existing customers simply updating their browsers may enable ETP themselves. The default-of-on will be extended to those users “in the coming months,” Mozilla said, apparently activating it in stages as a last-step quality control.
Mozilla also used the update to Firefox 67.0.1 to trumpet other privacy- and security-centric enhancements, including an add-on that brings its Lockwise password manager to the desktop browser and an improved Facebook Container, an extension designed to keep the social network behemoth from tracking users elsewhere on the web.
Credit to Author: Justin Sherman| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 12:00:00 +0000
Opinion: Russia and Iran’s decisions to build isolated, domestic internets represent a new form of internet fragmentation—one that is far more physical than what we’ve seen before.
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