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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 22:12:52 +0000
The social media giant Thursday outlined several attempts to help protect the midterm elections, but still has a long way to go.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:00:00 +0000
The unfortunately named MuslimCrypt uses steganography to pass discreet messages through images online.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 03:00:00 -0700
IT department sends an email blast to the users: From now on, everyone will use a single login credential for all areas of the network, according to a pilot fish on the receiving end.
Fish’s reaction to single sign-on? “Yahoo! No more numerous account credentials to keep track of for various subsystems within the domain!”
In short order, all users are issued their single login credentials. And someone in IT has thought this through: The new user name and password are the same as for the user’s existing email account. That should make them easier for users to remember.
There’s just one catch.
It turns out that before a user can get to the single-login screen to use his single-login credentials, he first has to go to the subsystem he’s planning to use.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 10:30:00 -0700
An enormous number of patches spewed out of Microsoft this month, with two ponderous cumulative updates for each version of Windows 10, a third “bonus” bug fix for Win10 Fall Creators Update (version 1709), and a just-described bug in Windows 7 that’ll leave you begging for a Win7 patch that works.
There’s also a bit of comic relief with a patch for Win10 1709, KB 4094276, that “makes improvements to ease the upgrade experience to Windows 10 Version 1709.” That’s a wonderful example of a self-referential fix.
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:00:00 +0000
For years, Facebook has left a privacy setting on its site that addresses a problem that no longer exists.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000
Researchers point out serious gaps in the privacy promises of stealth cryptocoin Monero.
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Credit to Author: Matt Gallagher| Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000
What’s happening at the US Army’s new cyber branch headquarters marks a change for Fort Gordon. Hell, it might be changing warfare itself—all through a computer screen.
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Credit to Author: Kathryn Cave| Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 07:42:00 -0700
Despite the constant announcements that email is dead – or, at least, about to die – it is still the most common form of workplace communication. Now, Swiss company Gmelius, which launched in 2016, believes it has come up with a way to counteract some of email’s shortcomings and make it better.
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