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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000
At this rate, it will take years to fix a critical vulnerability that remains in over 900,000 Windows machines. A worm will arrive much sooner.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 07:36:00 -0700
Children are emotional. Protecting them matters. When it comes to technology, do you want developers you don’t know over whom you have no control watching what your children do on their devices?
Apple recently cut developers off from using MDM software to drive third-party parental control solutions.
Developers were upset, and seventeen smaller developers you’ve probably never heard of got together just days before Apple’s WWDC 2019 conference with a well-organized PR campaign and a professional website to demand access to new API’s that let them develop parental control software for iOS.
Recently released public SAP exploits (dubbed 10KBLAZE) could pose a security risk for thousands of businesses. Computerworld executive editor Ken Mingis and CSO Online's Lucian Constantin discuss the fallout of 10KBLAZE, and how businesses using SAP should respond.
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 13:05:27 +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 how a Trickbot attacked a school district’s networks and how infected cryptocurrency-mining containers target docker hosts with exposed APIs. Read on: Trickbot Attack Forces Ohio School…
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 18:26:20 +0000
Third-party developers don’t always build extensions with security best practices in mind. Now Google is taking steps to better protect user data.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 18:24:01 +0000
Robert Mueller outlined the conclusions of the Russia investigation and made clear, in his own obtuse way, that the next steps belong to Congress.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 04:16:00 -0700
In a normal month, you need a scorecard to keep track of Windows patches. Now, your scorecards need a scorecard. One ray of hope: It looks like some Windows 10 cumulative updates will include the new “Download and install now” feature.
The May 2019 Windows updates have taken so many twists and turns it’s hard to pin things down, but as of Thursday morning, here’s what we’ve seen.
As of now, all of the recent versions of Win10 (1607/Server 2016, 1703, 1709, 1803, 1809/Server 2019) have had three cumulative updates in May. Depending on where you live (or, more correctly, which locality you’ve chosen for your machine), you’ve been pushed one or two of them. If you’re a “seeker” (and clicked “Check for updates” or downloaded and installed the patches), you’ve had at least two, and maybe three. Got that?
Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 19:03:25 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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