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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:59:55 +0000
As cryptojacking takes over the web, Google will put a stop to cryptomining extensions that prey on unsuspecting installers.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Anna Markovskaya| Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 15:40:59 +0000
Most computer infections come from visiting porn sites, or so some people say. Are they right?
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 07:33:00 -0700
As many of us were getting ready for the holiday weekend, after the surprise announcement about Windows being torn into three pieces, Microsoft shoveled yet another load of patches out the Automatic Update chute. Think of it as the software equivalent of a Friday night news dump.
KB 4100480 kicked off the two days from patching purgatory with a Windows 7/Server 2008R2 kernel update for CVE-2018-1038, the “Total Meltdown” bug Microsoft introduced in Win7 back in January. Total Meltdown, you may recall, is a huge security hole implemented by all of these Microsoft security patches:
Credit to Author: Wired Staff| Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000
As always, we’ve rounded up all the news we didn’t break or cover in depth this week.
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Credit to Author: Klint Finley| Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:11:39 +0000
Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare appears to be preparing to launch a service to encrypt traffic to the computers that look up web addresses.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 22:10:57 +0000
If Under Armour had protected all passwords equally, its 150-million-user MyFitnessPal breach wouldn’t have been nearly as bad.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:18:51 +0000
Atlanta isn’t the SamSam ransomware strain’s first victim—and it won’t be the last.
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 03:03:00 -0700
Facial recognition technology, which has begun to gain traction on mobile devices like the iPhone X and various Android smartphones, could soon show up at work – and at the airport.
The technology uses a person’s face to authenticate their identity, making it a potentially important security tool.
In 2015, Google launched its “Trusted Face” feature as part of its Android 5.0 Lollipop update. Trusted Face, part of Android’s Smart Lock technology, works in the same way as Apple’s Face ID, which replaced the Touch ID fingerprint reader on the iPhone X.