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Credit to Author: Vijith Assar| Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2018 11:00:00 +0000
Spectre fixes forced browsers to break the compatibility covenant of the web. Other unchecked technologies could cause even deeper damage.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 16:20:05 +0000
New reports indicate that Cambridge Analytica, the data team affiliated with Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, harvested data from 50 million Facebook users—and Facebook failed to stop them.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2018 13:00:00 +0000
A major botnet, an Equifax indictment, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 23:02:20 +0000
The Colombian-American hacker became famous in the early 2000s for breaking into the systems at organizations like *The New York Times*, and later for his role in Chelsea Manning’s arrest.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 07:37:00 -0700
The emerging Cambridge Analytica/Facebook affair, in which people’s personal data was allegedly used for purposes it should not have been used for, shows the danger of surveillance capitalism and the need for a new approach to social networking — and that’s what Apple can provide.
History shows us that Apple has never succeeded in creating a social network. Ping, launched in 2010, was closed down in 2012 due to lack of interest.
Credit to Author: Pradeep Kulkarni| Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 14:19:13 +0000
Last week, we had blogged about the emergence of a new attack vector ‘.url’ which is used to spread malware. In this blog post, we will deep-dive into the attack chain of this ‘.url’ vector and elaborate on the Quant Loader malware which is actively making use of it. Let’s…
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 07:51:00 -0700
Microsoft this week lifted the security update blockade on Windows 10 PCs that do not have approved antivirus software, but kept the no-patches-for-you rule in place for the more popular Windows 7.
The update roadblock was assembled in early January, when Microsoft issued mitigations against the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Those vulnerabilities stemmed from design flaws in virtually all modern processors made by Intel, AMD and ARM. According to Microsoft, the security updates could brick PCs equipped with antivirus (AV) software that had improperly tapped into kernel memory.
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:53:20 +0000
Despite warnings and flagged accounts, Zello left accounts with ISIS flag avatars and jihadist descriptions live on its service.
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