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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:25:55 +0000
Cops sent unsuspecting users scrambling from one dark web site’s takedown to another site—that they controlled.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Justin Foster| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:00:45 +0000
This year’s Black Hat® conference is right around the corner. Now, amazingly, in its 20th year, Black Hat is one of the world’s top gathering of information security professionals. Friends in the industry refer to this as “Security Summer Camp” and it’s true, between the training, briefings, arsenal, and business hall, Black Hat is chocked…
Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 09:00:00 -0700
The premiere episode of Tech Talk covered a lot of ground as our four-member panel weighed in on everything from Microsoft’s just-announced Azure Stack to the trials of IT security pros buffeted by ongoing cyberattacks to the fate of Touch ID in the upcoming iPhone 8.
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Get the details on Microsoft's new Azure Stack, why cyberattacks never seem to end, the fate of Apple's Touch ID and why QWERTY keyboards are now tech relics.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0700
Strap on your hip waders. This particular “scare” article should have you thinking yet again about the advisability of installing Windows updates as soon as they’re available. As you’ll see, Microsoft itself has flip-flopped on the resolution and those who subscribe to Windows Update have been taken along for the ride.
Buggy June patches to Windows, Internet Explorer and Edge left customers in the horns of a dilemma:
Microsoft’s up against a hard bug that makes this an either-or proposition: Until Microsoft figures out how to fix both problems at the same time, either you patch the security hole, or you can print inside iFrames with IE, but not both.
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Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 21:38:08 +0000
If you want to fix voting, don’t investigate fraud. Improve the outdated, insecure tech.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 12:00:00 -0700
Strap on your hip waders. This particular “scare” article should have you thinking yet again about the advisability of installing Windows updates as soon as they’re available. As you’ll see, Microsoft itself has flip-flopped on the resolution and those who subscribe to Windows Update have been taken along for the ride.
Buggy June patches to Windows, Internet Explorer and Edge left customers in the horns of a dilemma:
Microsoft’s up against a hard bug that makes this an either-or proposition: Until Microsoft figures out how to fix both problems at the same time, either you patch the security hole, or you can print inside iFrames with IE, but not both.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 13:00:00 +0000
The self-balancing scooter isn’t quite so steady when hackers take charge.
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