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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 15:21:35 +0000
Joy Reid may have very well been the target of a malicious breach. Or she’s just the latest person to blame hackers for her past mistakes.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 09:22:00 -0700
Good things come to those who wait. If you resisted the drill sergeant scream of “GET THOSE PATCHES INSTALLED AS SOON AS THEY’RE OUT, MAGGOT!” you’re about to reap your just reward.
As is so often the case, the Patch Tuesday screams are something you should consider, but they’re hardly the final word. At this point, there’s a credible threat forming for Win7 and Server 2008 R2 machines — Total Meltdown is definitely coming — but the sky hasn’t fallen. There are no known Meltdown or Spectre exploits in the wild, and all of the hell unleashed by this month’s series of patches and re-patches and pre-appended re-re-patches primarily served as demonic theater to those of us who chose to wait.
Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 12:00:45 +0000
I was having dinner with friends recently and one of the newer members of the group asked me what I did for a living. I told him that I worked for a cybersecurity company and his reply was, “I don’t need to worry about security – I have a MacBook.” I thought that at any…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Yaroslava Ryabova| Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:00:39 +0000
We explain what digital certificates are, what types exist, and what problems are associated with them.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:00:10 +0000
Submitted by Ian Grutze If mobile threats diversified and expanded in 2016, they matured in 2017. Mobile ransomware continued to rear its head, burgeoning into the platform’s most prevalent threat. Simple screen lockers, for instance, evolved into file-encrypting malware, some of which even seemed to keep pace with their desktop counterparts in terms of malicious routines….
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700
There’s a new security policy at this biotech company, reports a pilot fish in the know: When logging in on a PC, the username field will now be blank, and everyone will have to input the name together with the password.
“The policy is announced weeks in advance,” fish says. “In spite of this, the first day is painful. A flurry of calls comes into the IT help desk regarding people not being able to log in. One is from a junior member of the payroll department who is about to leave on a two-week vacation — in fact, her flight is later that afternoon.”
“A tech tries to help her over the phone, but apparently she couldn’t tell the difference between the username box and password box, in spite of them actually being labeled as such.”
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:34:24 +0000
The digital realm has become a critical space for individuals to express their opinions and further their causes.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:06:00 -0700
People think I’m joking when I refer to bug fixing as Microsoft’s next billion-dollar business. I’m not. This month woefully demonstrated why patching Windows has become much bigger – and more critical – than developing new versions. Microsoft’s hell-bent move to bring out new versions of Windows twice a year “as a service” makes things worse, but quality control problems dog patches to every version of Windows. Except, arguably, Windows 8.1.
In April, we’ve seen a return to two massive cumulative updates per month for all supported versions of Windows 10. The second cumulative update, with luck, fixes the bugs in the first cumulative update. Windows 7 turned into a fiery pit when it was discovered in late March that every patch to Win7 (and Server 2008R2) pushed out this year enables the Total Meltdown bug. Fortunately, by April 23, we finally saw some stability return to the process.