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Credit to Author: Michael Miley| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 22:00:24 +0000
The end of the summer can be a pretty stressful time for parents as well as their kids. Apart from the prospect of a return to school, there’s a whole checklist of items to get ready. Schoolbag? Check. Sports kit? Check. Smartphone? Check. Internet safety guide? Errr… The truth is that today, there aren’t many…
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:02:27 +0000
Donald Trump’s scorched-earth rhetoric pushes North Korea closer to the brink—and, maybe, the US closer to the negotiating table.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 18:47:44 +0000
One of the first steps in guarding against ransomware infections is remaining in-the-know about emerging threats and attack styles. Now, a new threat has come to the surface: Petya.
Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 10:01:00 -0700
When you read about a splashy new software update like Google’s fresh-from-the-oven Android 8.0 Oreo release, you tend to hear mostly about the marquee features — the most attention-grabbing elements and refinements you’re likely to notice when you get the update on your own device.
It’s understandable, since those are the things we all see most immediately and directly. Beneath the surface, though, Oreo has some pretty significant stuff going on in the realm of security — stuff that hasn’t been widely covered but is as important as anything else to understand.
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VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger talks about distributed encryption between virtual machines and the concept of app defense.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 05:18:00 -0700
There’s no official confirmation, and no explanation of course, but overnight Microsoft pulled a patch that was supposed to fix the main problems in this month’s Windows 7 security updates. I talked about the repair hotfix yesterday in “Microsoft repairs buggy Win7 security patch with buggy hotfix KB 4039884.” Today, the repair hotfix isn’t available any more.
All we know for sure is that, sometime last night, the Microsoft Update Catalog entry for KB 4039884 disappeared. As of early Tuesday morning, Eastern time, the KB article is still available, and it hasn’t been modified — it still points to the Update Catalog.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2017 11:00:00 +0000
A vulnerability in hotel keycard locks was a security disaster—and a huge opportunity for one burglar.
Read MoreCredit to Author: David Clement| Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 19:00:33 +0000
On August 28th at VMworld 2017 in Las Vegas, VMware announced initial availability for their unique offering called ‘VMware Cloud on AWS’ allowing customers to run VMware workloads on the AWS cloud. This means customers can take advantage of agile cloud infrastructure all the while maintaining their familiar VMware tools, skill sets and architecture framework…