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Credit to Author: Gregory Barber| Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2018 01:49:17 +0000
The 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the DNC allegedly used $95,000 worth of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to fund their operation.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:54:58 +0000
The special counsel has unleashed an international, geopolitical bombshell.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:00:00 +0000
In at least one instance, DEA agents sold an encrypted BlackBerry to a suspected drug smuggler—and kept the encryption key.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Nikolay Pankov| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:21:50 +0000
Some business owners see cyberprotection as just more software to manage. But it is much more than that.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:10:20 +0000
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog covering a couple of the statistics from the Zero Day Initiative’s (ZDI) first half of 2018. One of the stats that I didn’t cover is the increasing focus on enterprise applications. The team is seeing consistent growth in submissions of Microsoft and Apple vulnerabilities, but now they’re also…
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 06:43:00 -0700
As I reported yesterday, the July 2018 Windows and Office patches teem with bugs. We’re just beginning to see the fallout.
The July 3 non-security Office 2016 patch KB 4018385 is officially yanked. If you don’t recall KB 4018385 — a small patch in a sea of Office fixes — the original KB article describes it thusly:
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 03:12:00 -0700
After months of speculation, Taiwanese electronics company Huawei Technologies Ltd. (HTC) has confirmed it will be releasing a blockchain-enabled smartphone this year that will allow users to securely store cryptocurrency offline and act as a compute node in a blockchain network.
“We want to double and triple the number of nodes of Ethereum and Bitcoin,” HTC said in its marketing material for the device. The new smartphone is expected to be able to work with multiple blockchain protocols allowing for interoperability between them.
In addition, the HTC Exodus blockchain-enabled smartphone will allow owners to play CryptoKitties, a decentralized app (Dapp) game. Dapps are applications that run across multiple nodes on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:32:00 -0700
Google has switched on a defensive technology in Chrome that will make it much more difficult for Spectra-like attacks to steal information such as log-on credentials.
Called “Site Isolation,” the new security technology has a decade-long history. But most recently it’s been cited as a shield to guard against threats posed by Spectre, the processor vulnerability sniffed out by Google’s own engineers more than year ago. Google unveiled Site Isolation in late 2017 within Chrome 63, making it an option for enterprise IT staff members, who could customize the defense to shield workers from threats harbored on external sites. Company administrators could use Windows GPOs – Group Policy Objects – as well as command-line flags prior to wider deployment via group policies.