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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 06:19:00 -0700

August 2018 was a relatively innocuous patching month, although the final resolution to the August problems didn’t appear until late Friday night just as the month was coming to a close — on a three-day weekend in the US.

We’ve seen the same pattern repeat itself almost every month since the beginning of the year: The first round of Microsoft security patches (notably including Win10 patches) introduce bugs, while subsequent rounds of patches each month squash most of them. If we’re lucky.

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ComputerWorld Independent

September 10, 2018 admin

Mac and iOS apps stealing user data — an enterprise take

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:53:00 -0700

Reports claiming numerous apps distributed through Apple’s App Store are secretly exfiltrating user data should be an alarm call to enterprise CIOs. It signals a new battlefront in the eternal enterprise security wars.

The enterprise risk of personal data

On the surface, the data being extracted is kind of … personal, such as location and browser histories. Information like that provides additional insight into what individual users are up to. Why should that concern an enterprise?

That’s a rhetorical question, of course. Most enterprise security professionals recognize that any form of data exfiltration poses an overall challenge.

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ComputerWorld Independent

September 10, 2018 admin

Mac and iOS apps stealing user data, an enterprise take

Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 04:53:00 -0700

The enterprise risk of personal data

On the surface, the data being extracted is kind of… personal: Location, browser histories, information like this provides additional insight into what individual users are up to. Why should that concern an enterprise?

That’s a rhetorical question, of course. Most enterprise security professionals recognize that any form of data exfiltration poses an overall challenge.

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ComputerWorld Independent

September 10, 2018 admin

Why security is the first thing to go, episode 65,723

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2018 03:00:00 -0700

IT contractor has a project to upgrade some software for a client — and the project is way behind schedule, says a pilot fish on the client side.

And why is that such a problem? “The existing product goes End-of-Life soon, at which time it will no longer be an approved product for us,” fish explains.

“The contractor’s people come in and pitch their schedule to upper management. In the briefing, they bring up the fact that the new product is not even approved to be on our highly secured network, and they have not even started on getting it approved.

“Essentially, if they have to get it approved, they can never get it deployed on time.

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Security Wired

September 9, 2018 admin