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Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2019 15:23:08 +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 an adware that disguised itself as different apps and monitors mobile devices. Also, learn more about the different ransomware attacks Trend Micro has been tracking….

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January 10, 2019 admin

Carriers Swore They’d Stop Selling Location Data. Will They Ever?

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:43:55 +0000

Months after Sprint, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon promised to stop selling user location data, the practice continues.

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January 10, 2019 admin

A Growing Frontier for Terrorist Groups: Unsuspecting Chat Apps

Credit to Author: Rita Katz| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 20:00:00 +0000

Opinion: As Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube crack down on extremist propaganda, ISIS recruiters are exploiting lesser-known messenger apps.

ComputerWorld Independent

January 10, 2019 admin

How to create and open compressed files on iPhone, iPad

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 07:27:00 -0800

Many enterprises rely on zip files to exchange data, particularly confidential data – compression helps keep information safe, even against inquisitive ads trackers lurking inside “free” email or online storage services. How do you handle these things on iPad or iPhone?

How to handle zip files on iPhone

While it isn’t especially obvious, iOS provides some limited features that let you archive and decompress zip files. You can even create a nice little Shortcut to do this for you:

Open Shortcuts, Tap Create Shortcut
In the search bar, type Extract Archive: That shortcut should appear in the list below, tap it to add it to your workflow.
Returning to the search bar, type Save File. When it appears tap it to add it to the workflow you are building.
Tap the switch button at top right of the shortcut name
In the next pane you can name the shortcut and give it an icon. The most important change you should make is to enable Show in Share Sheet (flick to green).
You can create a second Shortcut to make archives. Just tupe Make Archive to find the relevant flow and then add Save File and Show in Share Sheet as decribed above. Don’t forget to give it a name, such as Make Archive.
Shortcuts can work with multiple compression formats, including .tar, .zip and .iso.

How to use it:

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January 9, 2019 admin

Paul Manafort Is Bad at Basic Tech, From Passwords to PDFs

Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 17:02:22 +0000

The former Trump campaign chair keeps getting in trouble thanks at least in part to subpar digital security.

ComputerWorld Independent

January 9, 2019 admin

Enterprise iPhones will soon be able to use security dongles

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:25:00 -0800

Enterprise security professionals will be pleased to learn that it will soon be possible to enhance the already considerable device security of Apple’s iPhones with hardware-based physical authentication dongles using the Lightning port.

A highly secure proposition

Announced at CES 2019, the key fits on a keyring and comes from the authorization experts at Yubico. The hardware connects to iOS systems using the Lightning connection and is also equipped with USB-C for Macs. This is quite a big deal.

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January 9, 2019 admin

Details, details

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800

It’s a few years after Y2K when the IT security team at this university gets a rude awakening, reports a pilot fish in the know.

“They discovered that persons unknown had hacked into a university server,” fish says. “It was being used to launch denial-of-service attacks against a victim somewhere outside the university.”

The team’s first job is finding the server — which turns out to be in the alumni office — and taking it offline.

Then they start digging into the security logs. That’s when they find out that the attackers have been making use of the server for more than a year.

And once they start checking on the IP addresses of whoever it is that has accessed the server, they discover it’s not just one or two hackers. It seems people from all over the world have been using this server to launch attacks.

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January 9, 2019 admin

Mingis on Tech: As blockchain hype cools, a 'trough of disillusionment' for 2019?

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2019 03:00:00 -0800

Ok, so maybe blockchain isn’t ready yet to become the biggest new technology since the internet.

But the distributed ledger technology clearly made strides in 2018, when it was embraced by companies from Walmart to shipping bigwig Maersk to top tech venders like IBM, SAP, Oracle and Microsoft who see potential in blockchain-as-a-service. (Walmart’s vice president in charge of food safety, Frank Yiannas, compared his embrace of blockchain to a “religious conversaion.”)

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