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Credit to Author: David Clement| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 20:49:08 +0000
VMware featured a number of great announcements at VMworld 2017 including VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware customers can now run new or existing virtualized workloads in the AWS cloud while maintaining their current VMware tools and skill sets. This announcement provides an important shift in the hybrid cloud market for businesses looking to adopt the…
Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000
New research finds video visits in prisons increase the number of in-person visits inmates receive, but high costs and low quality prevent many from using the service.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000
New research finds video visits in prisons increase the number of in-person visits inmates receive, but high costs and low quality prevent many from using the service.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000
One security researcher reveals the secrets of simple gift card fraud.
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Credit to Author: Ashley Feinberg| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:20:26 +0000
From Cesar Millan to a tactical flashlight, here’s what tops Team Trump’s Amazon Wish Lists.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:36:00 -0700
August has seen a flurry of buggy patches:
Win10 1607 – KB 4033637, which arrived last Friday via Auto Update, is still undocumented. A Reddit thread credits Microsoft as saying it’s a July security patch for Flash. Abbodi86 on AskWoody has a different view: it’s an update to the Compatibility Appraiser, which is the software that scans a PC to see whether it’s ready to move to the next version. Günter Born concurs with Abbodi86. (I wonder if it’s a precursor to the Fall Creators Update.) There’s no explanation about why Microsoft refuses to document it, or talk about it.
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Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 17:56:22 +0000
Let’s take a closer look into BEC threats and how hackers have improved this attack method.
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 03:00:00 -0700
Government office is rolling out remote desktop connections over VPN for some of its users, and not everyone is jumping on board, reports a pilot fish working there.
“I was staffing our support desk when one of these users called in from home, two weeks after we had set up the provisioning task for him,” fish says.
“He admitted he wasn’t the most proficient with computers, so he had his wife with him to help, and wanted to get going on the process.”
Fish explains the steps, and quickly determines that the user didn’t respond to the provisioning task until the day before — when it had already expired.
No problem, fish says, I’ll regenerate the task. That will take an hour, but in the meantime I can remote into your laptop and we can make sure it meets the minimum requirements.
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