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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 16:30:17 +0000
In his latest novel, David Ignatius tackles the intersection of quantum computing and spying
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 06:37:00 -0800
For those of us keeping track of Windows patches, the long four-day weekend in the U.S. felt like another instantiation of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Here are the developments, in more or less chronological (which is to say, not logical at all) order.
While many of you were sneaking out the door early on Wednesday, Microsoft released KB 4055038, a fix for bugs that clobbered Epson dot matrix printers, introduced in this month’s Patch Tuesday security patches. I talked about the bug two weeks ago. In short, a bug in all of this month’s Windows security patches caused Epson dot matrix printer drivers to fail. The bug appeared in:
A solid backup policy and frequent awareness training can reduce the risk of ransomware, but unintentional breaches by insiders are still a worry for administrators. Watch as Steve Ragan and Michael Nadeau talk security strategy.
Credit to Author: Mark Nunnikhoven (Vice President, Cloud Research)| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 13:00:15 +0000
This week 40,000 people are going to gather in Las Vegas for the biggest event in cloud, AWS re:Invent 2017. This is a fantastic event jam packed with opportunities to meet members of the community, learn about great new services from AWS, and have a blast. I’ve already written about how to get the most…
Credit to Author: Rajib Singha| Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 05:55:01 +0000
Popular image-sharing site Imgur has issued a notification through its official blog about a security breach that impacted 1.7 million users. This breach had occurred back in 2014. The company learned about this from security researcher Troy Hunt. What was compromised in the Imgur security breach? Data of 1.7 million Imgur…
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Credit to Author: Ted Johnson| Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000
Opinion: The Pentagon collects so much surveillance footage that humans can’t watch all of it. It’s time to deploy AI.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 13:00:00 +0000
Google acknowledged this week that Android devices communicate the nearest cell tower, even after you turn off location services and remove the SIM card.
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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 02:00:00 -0800
Your smartphone may contain secret “features” that leave you vulnerable.
I’m not talking about accidental design flaws that hackers might exploit. Security issues have always existed. They represent a cat-and-mouse game between malicious actors, who try to break smartphone security, and the smartphone industry, which tries to identify and fix the accidental vulnerabilities that make phones susceptible to hackers. Nothing new about that.
What I’m talking about is a new phenomenon — a trend we’ve learned about only in the past few weeks.
I’m talking about design decisions made by smartphone companies that cause phones to do things invisibly, behind the scenes and behind your back, that make phones potentially less secure.