Cloudflare’s Plan to Protect the Whole Internet Comes Into Focus
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 13:00:00 +0000
One of the internet’s biggest infrastructure companies is expanding its protections beyond the web.
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How Android Phones Hide Missed Security Updates From You
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:00:00 +0000
A study finds that Android phones aren’t just slow to get patched; sometimes they lie about being patched when they’re not.
Read MoreThe Questions Zuckerberg Should Have Answered About Russia
Credit to Author: Molly McKew| Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 02:09:51 +0000
Russian agents used Facebook to influence the 2017 election. Congress missed the chance to delve into what the company knows about it—and how they’ll stop it in 2018.
Read MorePatch Tuesday brings some surprises, some early crashes, and a surreal solution
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2018 06:40:00 -0700
With all of the problems in the January, February and March patches for Windows and Office, you’d think we would catch a break in April. In one sense we did — some of the worst bugs in the earlier patches now seem to be behind us. But we’re definitely not out of the woods just yet.
The ‘Despacito’ YouTube Hack Was Probably Pretty Simple to Pull Off
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 11:35:19 +0000
The removal of YouTube’s most popular video this week was likely the result of a low-cost phishing scam rather than sophisticated hacking.
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg Makes Facebook Privacy Sound So Easy
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 01:10:58 +0000
[In his testimony to Congress, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg repeatedly misrepresented the amount of control Facebook users really have over their data.](https://www.wired.com/story/mark-zuckerberg-congress-day-one)
Read MoreWhat happened to the new spring update, Windows 10 version 1803?
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 07:42:00 -0700
Most of us expected Microsoft to drop its latest and greatest version of the last version of Windows yesterday. The highly anticipated version 1803, Redstone 4 — which many of us have been testing for weeks — looked ready to go … until it wasn’t.
Rumors are flying but, as of this writing, the actual cause for the delay isn’t public.
Microsoft, of course, has never committed to a release date. Or a build number. Or even a hokey “Spring after Fall Creators Update” style name, for that matter. (I’m still plugging for “Terry Myerson Swansong version” but doubt it’ll gain traction.)
Cambridge Analytica Could Also Access Private Facebook Messages
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 16:18:32 +0000
A Facebook permission allowed an app to read messages between 1,500 Facebook users and their friends until October 2015—data that Cambridge Analytica could have accessed.
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