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Host Steve Ragan reports from the RSA 2018 conference, talking with Liv Rowley, an intelligence analyst at Flashpoint, about Spanish cybercrime, an underground community that poses persistent security risks.
Credit to Author: Yaroslava Ryabova| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:00:40 +0000
Did you see that new fully loaded Android smartphone, the one that looks too good for the price? Well, it may include some unwanted extras.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:12:00 -0700
In May, we saw a host of bugs introduced by the Patch Tuesday “security” patches. By the end of the month, patches for those patches killed almost all of the bugs – even the inability of Win10 version 1803 to run on certain kinds of solid-state drives, including the one in some Surface Pros.
We also saw Microsoft push Win10 version 1803 onto machines that were specifically set to avoid it. I haven’t seen any official response to Microsoft’s inquiry into the reports, but we now have a sighting of a Win7 machine being pushed onto Win10, in spite of its settings.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 19:38:29 +0000
It’s unclear still what the historic summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un might yield. But holding North Korea accountable will be tricky no matter what.
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Credit to Author: Steven Levy| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 10:00:00 +0000
How the Oculus founder, along with ex-Palantir executives, plan to reinvent national security, starting with Trump’s agenda.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:52:35 +0000
You can tell a lot by the company someone keeps. This is one of many reasons we are so proud to have been invited to present at an Amazon event today. Amazon is hosting an EKoS Day in San Francisco and will be highlighting their newly launched Amazon EKS offering. We are giving a sneak…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:00:39 +0000
When your computer or mobile device (and now, even your IoT device) is hijacked to secretly mine cryptocurrencies, it’s been cryptojacked and becomes a coinmining zombie. Its CPU, memory, disk, and power are enlisted in varying degrees in the service of the mining botnet, which labors on behalf of those who use it, with other…
The post Don’t Be a Coinmining Zombie – Part 1: Getting Cryptojacked appeared first on .
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 13:00:00 +0000
A DNA site breach, a background check failure, and more security news this week.
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