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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2018 05:49:00 -0800

As we crawl deeper down the Meltdown/Spectre bunny hole, Microsoft released on Friday night a weird, download-only patch that disables the “fix” that’s supposed to protect you against one of the Spectre variants. It’s the same patch, that works the same way, on every version of Windows, from Win7 to the latest Win10 beta builds.

I’m tempted to call it an out-of-band patch, but truth is that all of this month’s patches have been out of band.

You’ve no doubt been inundated by the news about Meltdown and Spectre, the two (actually, three) highly publicized security vulnerabilities in essentially all modern computer chips that, at this point, has never been seen on a real, live, in-the-wild computer.

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ComputerWorld Independent

January 29, 2018 admin

Ready for the EU's GDPR compliance deadline? Many companies aren't | Salted Hash Ep 16

CSO senior editor Michael Nadeau joins host Steve Ragan to talk about predictions for 2018, including the looming GDPR compliance deadline.

Security Wired

January 27, 2018 admin

Dutch Spies Snooped on Russia’s Elite Hackers, and More Security News This Week

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 13:00:00 +0000

The Doomsday Clock, #ReleaseTheMemo, and more of the week’s top security news.

Security Wired

January 27, 2018 admin

Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation Includes at Least One Facebook Employee Interview

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 19:06:28 +0000

As special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation grows, at least one Facebook employee who worked alongside the 2016 Trump campaign has been pulled into the probe.

ComputerWorld Independent

January 26, 2018 admin

Tech Talk ep 5 pt 1: The beginning of the end of the password in 2018

ComputerWorld Independent

January 26, 2018 admin

Tech Talk: What's trending for 2018?

Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:30:00 -0800

When it comes to tech trends we’re likely to see in 2018, nothing would likely be more welcome than the end of passwords. With companies looking for ever better ways to protect data, it seems clear that “password123” has no indefinite future. (Nor does you pet’s name, if that’s what you use.)

But just how quickly passwords will be shunted aside, and by what technology – biometrics? two-factor authentication? algorithms? – remains unclear.

That was topic No. 1 for our panel of tech experts – CSO‘s Michael Nadeau, Infoworld‘s Serdar Syegulalp, Computerworld Executive Editor Ken Mingis and Macworld‘s Michael Simon – as they peer into the near-future to discern what’s coming in 2018 and what’s not.

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ComputerWorld Independent

January 26, 2018 admin

Tech Talk: IT trends for 2018 – passwords on the way out, blockchain evolves

Our tech panel envisions the end of passwords, looks at how blockchain is evolving, details why 'serverless' computing is a boon to devs and wonders why Apple's HomePod seems late to the game.

Security Wired

January 26, 2018 admin

Your Sloppy Bitcoin Drug Deals Will Haunt You for Years

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000

Scouring the blockchain, researchers found years-old evidence tying Silk Road transaction to users’ public accounts.