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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 13:30:00 +0000
Balint Seeber found that cities around the US are leaving their emergency siren radio communication systems unencrypted and vulnerable to spoofing.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0000
The foundation released a broad, sweeping report Tuesday about the state of our lives online.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 03:00:00 -0700
The company this pilot fish works for is acquired by a larger outfit, and everyone gets a new login based on just the employee’s family name — which in fish’s case is Root.
“That should have been a non-issue with any other name,” says fish. “But when the administrators created my account, they apparently didn’t think about the fact that root is the superuser account in our Unix systems.
“Following the instructions provided in an email, I logged in and changed the password on my ‘root’ account. The next time I logged in, the password didn’t work. I called the help desk for the new company and they reset my password — and it worked until I logged off and tried to log back in.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 17:56:35 +0000
Some network communication protocol vulnerabilities have been known for more than a decade and still aren’t fixed. Now they’re being exploited.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 16:20:21 +0000
Facebook has released a tool that lets you see if you were caught up in the Cambridge Analytica fiasco—and what other apps know about you know.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 14:00:00 +0000
A new study from Pew Research shows that the bulk of links on Twitter don’t come from actual humans.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 10:30:00 -0700
March Windows patches were a mess. With the revelation of Total Meltdown, we recently discovered that all of this year’s Win7 patches left gaping security holes. It’s fair to say that the initial Patch Tuesday patches for almost every version of Windows, for every month this year, have had confirmed bugs. Every one.
If you want to help test this month’s Windows and Office patches, hey, I salute you! Most folks, though, would be well advised to turn off Automatic Update and wait for the initial wave of devastation to pass.
Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2018 15:16:54 +0000
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| A roundup of the security news from April 02 – April 08, including postal scams, ransomware, fake phone apps, and more. Categories: Tags: healthLinkedInmalwareransomwareroundupsecurityweek in security |
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