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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 14:09:00 -0700

Apple has apparently been able to permanently block de-encryption technology from a mysterious Atlanta-based company whose blackbox device was embraced by government agencies to bypass iPhone passcodes.

Atlanta-based Grayshift is one of two companies that claimed it could thwart Apple iPhone passcode security through brute-force attacks.

The blackbox technology purportedly worked, as Grayshift’s technology was snapped up by regional law enforcement and won contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Secret Service.

Another vendor, Israel-based Cellebrite, also discovered a way to unlock encrypted iPhones running iOS 11 and marketed its product to law enforcement and private forensics firms around the world. According to a police warrant obtained by Forbes, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security tested the technology.

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Security Wired

October 25, 2018 admin

The Feds Just Hit Notorious Swatter Tyler Barriss With 46 New Charges. He Intends to Plead Guilty

Credit to Author: Brendan Koerner| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 16:53:57 +0000

Prosecutors in California have filed 46 new counts against Tyler Barriss for bomb threats, fraud, and swatting incidents nationwide. He’s angling to get the case transferred to Kansas and intends to plead guilty.

Security Wired

October 25, 2018 admin

Trump’s Personal iPhone Would Be a National Security Risk

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 15:58:46 +0000

By using a personal iPhone instead of secured lines, President Trump makes it entirely too easy for China and Russia to spy.

Security Wired

October 25, 2018 admin

I Bought Used Voting Machines on eBay for $100 Apiece. What I Found Was Alarming

Credit to Author: Brian Varner| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 12:00:00 +0000

Opinion: The fact that voter information is left on devices, unencrypted, that are then sold on the open market is malpractice.

Security Wired

October 25, 2018 admin

Democrat Mail Bomb Scares Are a Perfect Misinformation Storm

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 21:46:00 +0000

News of apparent mail bombs targeting prominent Democrats and CNN give way to a deluge of false reports, partisan finger-pointing, and bad-faith conspiracy theories online.

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October 25, 2018 admin

The Patching Problem: Best Practices for Maintaining Up-to-Date Systems

Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 13:00:54 +0000

“Update ready to be installed.” IT teams and business stakeholders are probably familiar with this notification, or something like it. After all, software updates are nothing new: Whenever a vendor makes improvements or includes new capabilities on a previously-released platform, it comes with a software update. But boosting existing features aren’t the only reason that patching…

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October 25, 2018 admin

Win10 1803 big bug bash KB 4462933 joins earlier versions, a week late to the party

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2018 06:45:00 -0700

Back on Oct. 18, a “C Week” Thursday, Microsoft released hefty rounds of bug fixes for Win10 1607, 1703 and 1709. At the time, I wondered out loud why the latest (unyanked) version of Win10, version 1803, didn’t get a similar dose. Now, on a “D Week” Wednesday, it looks like we’ve seen the deluge.

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October 24, 2018 admin

How Mail Bombs Get Intercepted—And What Happens Next

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:06:20 +0000

Apparent mail bombs targeting Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, CNN, and more all got caught before their final destination. Here’s how.