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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 16:10:38 +0000
Roman Dobrokhotov has been playing a dangerous game for a Russian reporter: identifying agents of the GRU military intelligence agency.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:00:00 +0000
A technological barrier might be preferable to a physical one, but it raises civil liberties concerns that are largely absent from the debate.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:58:19 +0000
New reports say that Robert Mueller will be “wrapping up” his investigation soon. Here’s what that might actually mean.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 20:21:41 +0000
Android users can now stop Facebook from tracking their location when they aren’t using the Facebook app.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:00:00 -0800
When Apple launched its enterprise developer certificate program — which helps enterprises make their homegrown apps for employee use-only available through iTunes — it had to make a difficult convenience-vs.-security decision: how much hassle to put IT managers through to get their internal apps posted. It chose convenience and, well, you can guess what happened.
Media reports say pirate developers used the enterprise program to improperly distribute tweaked versions of popular apps — including Spotify, Angry Birds, Pokemon Go and Minecraft — while others used the platform to distribute porn apps along with real-money gambling apps. And all the bad guys had to do was lie to Apple reps about being associated with legitimate businesses. Apple didn’t bother to investigate or otherwise verify the answers.
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 16:12:51 +0000
A strain of ATM malware called WinPot turns the act of cashing out into something like a slot machine.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:21:50 +0000
Submitted by Steve Ng, Lead, Digital Platform Operations, Mediacorp Where there’s money, there has always been crime. But what if money came in the form of intangible digital assets and crime in the form of cyber adversaries? In fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, dragons are intelligent, mythical foes defined by their fiery prowess – boasting…
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 13:03:00 -0800
Microsoft has revised its schedule to dump support for an outdated cryptographic hash standard by postponing the deadline for Windows 7.
Microsoft, like other software vendors, digitally “signs” updates before they are distributed via the Internet. SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1), which debuted in 1995, was declared insecure a decade later, but it was retained for backward-compatibility reasons, primarily for Windows 7. Microsoft wants to ditch SHA-1 and rely only on the more-secure SHA-2 (Secure Hash Algorithm 2).
Late last year, Microsoft said that it would update Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (Service Pack 1) this month with support for SHA-2. Systems running those operating systems would not receive the usual monthly security updates after April’s collection, slated for release April 9, Microsoft promised at the time.