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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:00:00 +0000
Researchers didn’t have to hack Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant to use it for eavesdropping. They just took advantage of the system in place.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:00:00 +0000
Researchers found—and helped fix—a flaw in Vingcard RFID locks that would let hackers break into any room in hotels around the world.
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Credit to Author: Steven Levy| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 10:00:00 +0000
Ray Ozzie thinks his Clear method for unlocking encrypted devices can attain the impossible: It satisfies both law enforcement and privacy purists.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Steve Neville| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 14:48:46 +0000
Emails. Web forms. Events. [Oh my!] These marketing tactics are all designed to gather, store, and evolve relationships with your prospects, customers, and partners. Often times, they are the first point of contact for your organization from the outside world—and they all feed into your marketing automation systems. With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: William “Bill” Malik (CISA VP Infrastructure Strategies)| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:00:34 +0000
Trend Micro has been protecting its customers now for almost 30 years. Over that time our mission has not changed. We still fight every day to make the world a safer place to exchange digital information. However, our messaging has needed to evolve to take account of the ever-changing threat landscape, as well as the…
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Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700
This IT pilot fish has spent the past year and a half helping his company’s clients prepare for the European Union’s upcoming General Data Protection Regulation, and with a month to go, it’s been smooth sailing — mostly.
“Over the last 18 months I’ve been asking my customers time and again about their readiness to implement the GDPR rules,” says fish. “We have mostly small companies as our customers, family businesses and one-to-ten-person outfits, and most of them had need of our services one way or another.
“But one customer, a lawyer, told me every time that this particular set of rules does not apply to him, because everything he does is governed by an obligation to confidentiality. Ten weeks before the final date, he still thought it had nothing to do with him.”
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:33:00 -0700
Remember the Total Meltdown security hole? Microsoft spread the vulnerability in every 64-bit Win7 and Server 2008 R2 patch released this year, prior to March 29. Specifically, if you installed any of these patches:
… your machine was left in an exposed state. Microsoft made changes to your PC that makes it easy for a running to program to look at, or modify, any data on your computer.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2018 00:55:46 +0000
Whether to pay ransomware is a complicated—and costly—calculation.
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