How to Stop Google From Tracking Your Location
Credit to Author: Emily Dreyfuss| Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 17:37:28 +0000
A new report shows that Google still tracks your location even if you thought you opted out.
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Hacked Water Heaters Could Trigger Mass Blackouts Someday
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 11:00:00 +0000
A new study found that just 42,000 of those hacked home devices could be enough to leave a country of 38 million people in the dark.
Read MoreFax Machines Are Still Everywhere, and Wildly Insecure
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 22:00:00 +0000
Researchers have demonstrated that sending a single malicious fax is all it takes to break into a network.
Read MoreTo Identify a Hacker, Treat Them Like a Burglar
Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 21:00:00 +0000
A preliminary study shows that hackers penetrate systems in unique, documentable ways—just like criminals in the physical world.
Read MoreA Clever Android Hack Takes Advantage of Sloppy Storage
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 20:00:00 +0000
The so-called man in the disk attack uses Android’s permissive external storage to wreak havoc on devices.
Read MoreBlue Team Village, DEF CON 2018 | Salted Hash Ep 43
Host Steve Ragan talks to Munin, a staffer at the DEF CON Blue Team Village about what's happening and what you can expect.
How Do I Make My Windows 10 Computer Run Faster? (Part 1)
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 14:40:16 +0000
We’ve all been there. You get your shiny home PC or laptop back from the store and unboxed and everything is perfect. It runs like a dream: starting up quickly, speeding you through internet searches and web browsing, and applications open in the blink of an eye. But then over the following months, gradually things…
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Read MorePatch Tuesday’s coming: Block Windows Update and pray we don’t get fooled again
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2018 06:37:00 -0700
July 2018 patches for both Windows and Office brought bugs and bugs of bugs — many of which haven’t been solved, even now. We have even reached the unprecedented stage where the .NET team openly warned people against installing buggy updates, and the Monthly Rollup previews got shoved down the Automatic Update chute to fix bugs in the primary Monthly Rollup.
July was more galling than most months because the patches caused widespread problems for many, while plugging security holes for exactly zero widespread infections.