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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 08 May 2019 06:11:00 -0700

SAP and Apple are working together to help businesses build applications that use Apple’s machine learning and augmented reality technologies.

Apple is the enterprise

Apple CEO Tim Cook joined SAP CEO Bill McDermott at the latter company’s SAPPHIRE conference to announce the news.

“A man who is the last to accept the status quo, and the first to change it,” said McDermott introducing Cook.

Since entering into a business app development partnership with Apple in 2016, SAP itself has become an increasingly Apple-based business with around 100,000 Apple devices in use across the company.

That’s a revealing statistic, given Cook’s admission:

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Security Wired

May 7, 2019 admin

The CIA Sets Up Shop on Tor, the Anonymous Internet

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 14:06:25 +0000

Even the Central Intelligence Agency has a so-called onion service now.

Security Wired

May 7, 2019 admin

The Law Being Used to Prosecute Julian Assange Is Broken

Credit to Author: Tor Ekeland| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Opinion: Julian Assange is being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a minimally defined statute that can have maximally destructive consequences.

Security Wired

May 7, 2019 admin

The Strange Journey of an NSA Zero-Day—Into Multiple Enemies’ Hands

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 06:15:59 +0000

How a “secret” hackable bug found by the NSA was used over by Chinese, North Korean, and Russian hackers to wreak havoc.

Security Wired

May 7, 2019 admin

What Israel’s Strike on Hamas Hackers Means For Cyberwar

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 20:43:00 +0000

On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a building that allegedly housed an active Hamas hacking group—a potential first for cyberwar.

Security TrendMicro

May 7, 2019 admin

Cybersecurity Leaders Are Talking A Lot About Counterfeit Devices

Credit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Tue, 07 May 2019 13:00:28 +0000

Malice Vs Greed Most discussion about security in the supply chain has been focused on detecting tampering, or preventing backdoors or sneaky things being inserted into components and software. There’s another aspect emerging and will dwarf the tampering: devices that are counterfeited for profit indirectly causing security problems. Counterfeit devices are ones that either by…

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ComputerWorld Independent

May 6, 2019 admin

Mozilla issues fix after it lets cert expire and Firefox add-ons go belly-up

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 12:21:00 -0700

Mozilla over the weekend scrambled to come up with a fix for a bug that crippled most Firefox add-ons.

Engineers issued an update for the desktop browser Sunday afternoon that addressed the issue. That update followed a Saturday hotfix released via a little-known component that lets Mozilla feed pre-release code to Firefox users and then collect data from the browser.

The problem was traced to the certificate used by Mozilla to digitally sign Firefox extensions. When the organization neglected to renew the certificate, Firefox assumed the add-ons could not be trusted – that they were, in other words, illegitimate at best, potentially malicious at worst – and then disabled any already installed. Add-ons could not be added to the browser for the same reason.

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Security Wired

May 5, 2019 admin

What Is Application Shielding?

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 05 May 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Security firms are increasingly touting application shielding as an important layer of defense. But it may be better suited to DRM.