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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 13:16:00 -0700

I just received word from Gunter Born that Microsoft has pulled three of its Outlook patches:

KB 4011042 – July 5, 2017, update for Outlook 2010
KB 3191849 – June 27, 2017, update for Outlook 2013
KB 3213654 – June 30, 2017, update for Outlook 2016

As I mentioned last week, Microsoft still hasn’t fixed any of the Office 2007 bugs it introduced in the June security patches.

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July 14, 2017 admin

Donald Trump, Border Walls, and Flying Bags of Heroin

Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 22:42:52 +0000

Nope, sorry, a see-through border wall doesn’t protect against tossed heroin.

Security Wired

July 14, 2017 admin

Election Security Is a Surprisingly Controversial Issue

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:31:58 +0000

One would think that keeping elections safe would be an issue everyone backed. It’s not that simple.

Security TrendMicro

July 14, 2017 admin

TippingPoint Threat Intelligence and Zero-Day Coverage – Week of July 10, 2017

Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:00:02 +0000

Before the world of laptops, tablets and smart phones, some of us had to use paper-based solutions to keep track of our calendars and to-do lists. I used a Franklin Planner, where I kept track of my calendar as well as my never-ending to-do list. The Franklin Planner used the “ABC” system to help you…

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July 14, 2017 admin

Russia Could Easily Spread Fake News Without Team Trump’s Help

Credit to Author: Issie Lapowsky| Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 18:51:30 +0000

You don’t need to be a campaign insider to narrowly target American voters with disinformation online.

ComputerWorld Independent

July 13, 2017 admin

Restricting Firefox to TLS version 1.2 makes browsing safer

Credit to Author: Michael Horowitz| Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:43:00 -0700

Although its common to think of a secure website as the opposite of an insecure one, the choice is not, in fact, binary. For a website to be truly secure, there are about a dozen or so ducks that all need to be lined up in a row.

Seeing HTTPS does not mean that the security is well done, secure websites exist in many shades of gray. Since web browsers don’t offer a dozen visual indicators, many sites that are not particularly secure appear, to all but the most techie nerds, to be secure nonetheless. Browser vendors have dumbed things down for non-techies.

Last September, I took Apple to task for not having all their ducks in a row, writing that some of their security oversights allowed Apple websites to leak passwords.

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