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Credit to Author: Elisa Lippincott (TippingPoint Global Product Marketing)| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 12:00:49 +0000
The world lost a funny, talented and wonderful soul late last week. I only knew him for a year, but Raimund Genes made those of us who came to Trend Micro via the TippingPoint acquisition feel right at home. I appreciated his candor, his love of life and his creative cocktails. He was a tremendous…
Credit to Author: Eric Geier| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:41:00 -0700
Virtual private networks have many uses. Typically, businesses deploy VPNs so employees can securely access the corporate network from outside the office. However, we’ve seen a rise in third-party VPN services that use the same underlying technology, the encrypted tunnel, to simply provide a secure Internet connection.
Why would you ever need to do this?
When connected to a VPN service, the websites you access think you’re at the location where the VPN server is located. This can help anonymize your Internet traffic so it’s much harder for websites to track your personal browsing history.
This also allows you to access websites, services, and content that’s restricted where you are currently located, such as Netflix or Hulu when traveling overseas.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:08:38 +0000
Attempted intrusions against any senator aren’t surprising. But they’re a reminder election hacking shouldn’t be a partisan issue. The post Marco Rubio Says Hack Attempts From Russia Targeted Him, Too appeared first on WIRED.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 20:00:08 +0000
The House Intelligence Committee chair has had himself quite a week. The post Devin Nunes: A Running Timeline of His Odd Surveillance Claims and White House Ties appeared first on WIRED.
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Credit to Author: Grant Gross| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:13:00 -0700
The Russian government used “thousands” of internet trolls and bots to spread fake news, in addition to hacking into political campaigns leading up to the 2016 U.S. election, according to one lawmaker.
Disinformation spread on social media was designed to raise doubts about the U.S. election and the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, said Senator Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat.
“This Russian propaganda on steroids was designed to poison the national conversation in America,” Warner said Thursday during a Senate hearing on Russian election hacking. The Russian government used “thousands of paid internet trolls” and bots to spread disinformation on social media.
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Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 12:03:00 -0700
Google yesterday updated Chrome to patch several vulnerabilities, including a bug in the browser’s JavaScript engine that a Chinese team tried to exploit at a recent hacking contest.
The update to version 57.0.2987.133 contained fixes for five vulnerabilities, one marked “Critical” — the most serious rating in Google’s system — and the others tagged “High.”
Of the four vulnerabilities ranked High, one was attributed to “Team Sniper,” one of five groups from Chinese company Tencent Security that participated in this year’s edition of Pwn2Own, one of the world’s best-known hacking contests. Pwn2Own ran March 15-17 alongside the CanSecWest conference in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Credit to Author: Alex Drozhzhin| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:41:56 +0000
There’s been a lot of talk lately about privacy protection and VPNs. But what exactly is a VPN? We explain in simple words.
Read MoreCredit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:00:59 +0000
Now that Pornhub’s going HTTPS, your private browsing will be a lot more private. The post The World’s Biggest Porn Site Goes All-In on Encryption appeared first on WIRED.
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