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Credit to Author: Yael Grauer| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 15:30:00 +0000
Technologists, hackers, and journalists recap the latest episode of the realistic hacking show.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 05:58:00 -0700
Yesterday, Thursday, a date which will live in infamy, Microsoft unleashed patches for five versions of Windows. They were supposed to fix the widely reported bug in all of the mainstream October Windows security patches that gave rise to a bogus “Unexpected error from external database driver” message.
It’s too early to assess all of the damage, but reports from many corners say installing these new patches brings back old, unpatched versions of many files. If you installed one of the patches from yesterday, best to uninstall it. Now.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 11:00:00 +0000
Thousands of dollars. Hours of work. Five different masks. Apple’s iPhone X Face ID has held up against all of it.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Sharky| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 03:00:00 -0700
IT pilot fish gets an email from a person who’s a member of a club they both belong to — and while it’s not work-related, it was clearly sent from work.
“The email had been written as a Word document and, since I wasn’t using a Windows-based computer, I opened it as a text document,” says fish.
“This allowed me to see not only the note intended for me, but also the document history for all the other recent documents opened in Word by that user that day.
“The person who sent me the email was an attorney. Talk about unintentionally breaching client confidentiality!
“I contacted her privately and discreetly, and handed her a printout showing some of the things contained in that document history.
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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 16:29:55 +0000
Let’s take a closer look at the GDPR and how it will impact businesses outside the EU.
Credit to Author: Michael deAgonia| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 02:57:00 -0700
With just a glance, Face ID can unlock Apple’s new iPhone X, giving owners a new authentication paradigm for the first time since the arrival of Touch ID with the iPhone 5. Face ID – that’s Apple’s name for the technology – uses a complex front-facing camera system and accompanying software to unlock the iPhone and authenticate purchases and payments with a mere glance.
The futuristic-seeming tech is one of the iPhone X’s main selling points, along with its “Super Retina” OLED screen, slimmer, bezel-less form factor and improved camera. But it also raises questions about whether the technology is as easy and secure to use as the tried-and-true fingerprint-based Touch ID.
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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 10:00:29 +0000
By: David Sancho, Senior Threat Researcher at Trend Micro and Juan Jesús León, Product and New Development Manager of GMV Secure e-Solutions Trend Micro and GMV – an industry expert on ATM security – presented last week in London, during ATMSec, a conference focused on the topic. Our presentation was on a very interesting and…
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 22:16:42 +0000
A newly released trove of 470,000 files seized from Osama bin Laden’s compound include some internet classics—and links to Iran.
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