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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 22:29:40 +0000
Trump has denied or downplayed Russia’s attempts to influence US democracy three times this week—and that has very real consequences.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 19:41:52 +0000
Amid frequent customer data exposures, Amazon Web Services is pushing to spot errors and promote access control.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:18:00 -0700
An Arizona security company is working on an interesting approach to mobile authentication, one that leverages the exact angle a user holds the phone as a means of making replay attacks a lot more difficult. Aetna has been testing the method internally (according to the security company’s CEO) and the company — Trusona — has announced about $18 million in funding, from Microsoft Ventures ($10 million) and Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers ($8 million).
The Microsoft Ventures funding is interesting because one of the more popular mobile authentication methods today is Microsoft’s Authenticator app. Is Redmond covering its bases, or does it see the Trusona effort as threatening to displace Authenticator, at least in the enterprise IT world?
Credit to Author: Anant Pulgam| Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 07:40:40 +0000
How often do you store your important data in files? It’s very common, right? This data may be URLs, topics, personal data like contacts, email-ids, usernames of different portals and sometimes passwords too (though always recommended to not to do so). We very casually copy this data and paste it…
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Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:30:00 -0700
If 2017 was the year many tech firms suddenly looked around and realized they needed to be part of the blockchain craze, this is the year companies in a variety of industries have begun actively experimenting with the distributed ledger technology.
Helping to make that possible – especially for firms with no experience in building out blockchain systems themselves – are IT vendors like IBM, Microsoft, HPE and Amazon Web Services. They now offer blockchain-as-a-service.
Oracle joins other major tech vendors by rolling out its blockchain-as-a-service offering, and two smartphone makers plan to include the technology in new devices this year. Get the latest on the blockchain craze.
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 11:00:00 +0000
Buried in media scholar Jonathan Albright’s research was proof of a massive political misinformation campaign. Now he’s taking on the the world’s biggest platforms before it’s too late.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000
You may not have heard of Safe Browsing, but it’s made the web more secure for over a decade. Here’s its story, from the people who built it.
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