Credit to Author: Kristen Poli| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Under increased scrutiny, certain period-tracking apps are seeing a surge of new users. Which are as safe as they claim to be?
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:40:13 +0000
Despite alerting Meta months ago, feminist groups say tens of thousands of fake accounts continue to bombard them on the platform.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 05:55:00 -0700
Cryptocurrency has always been the payment method of choice for bad guys. Get hit with an enterprise ransomware attack and plan to pay? You’ll need crypto. The key reason cyberthieves love cryptocurrency so much is that it is far harder to trace payments.
That is why a move being attempted by the European Union has so much potential. The EU — in a move that will likely be mimicked by many other regional regulatory forces, including in the United States — is putting in place tracking requirements for all cryptocurrency.
If it is successful, and the EU has an excellent track record on precisely these kinds of changes, cryptocurrency may quickly fade as the thief’s payment of choice.
Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700
When it comes to Android and privacy, we’re accustomed to seeing things move in a certain direction.
It’s simple, really: With each new Android version, it usually gets easier to manage your privacy and understand how your information is being used. And we typically get more front-facing tools and under-the-hood improvements that allow us to handle that stuff intelligently. Obviously, right?
Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2022 13:00:00 +0000
Plus: A wild Indian cricket scam, an elite CIA hacker is found guilty of passing secrets to WikiLeaks, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2022 12:04:00 -0700
Though we get a reprieve from Exchange updates in this month’s Patch Tuesday update, more printer updates are on the way. Even with no updates for Microsoft Exchange or Visual Studio, Adobe is back with 15 critical updates for Adobe Reader. And Microsoft’s new patch deployment tool Auto-Patch is now live. (I always thought application testing was the main problem here, but actually getting patches deployed is still tough.)
Though the numbers are still quite high (with 86+ reported vulnerabilities), the testing and deployment profile for July should be fairly moderate. We suggest taking the time to harden your Exchange Server defenses and mitigation processes, and invest in your testing processes.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2022 11:00:00 +0000
Researchers have found a way to use the web’s basic functions to identify who visits a site—without the user detecting the hack.
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Credit to Author: Dan Goodin, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 16:00:00 +0000
The exploit can leak password information and other sensitive material, but the chipmakers are rolling out mitigations.
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Credit to Author: Varsha Bansal| Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 17:01:51 +0000
Nonprofit donors had their information given to law enforcement without consent, highlighting limited data protections in the world’s largest democracy.
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Credit to Author: JR Raphael| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:00:00 -0700
Man, I had one hell of a streak.
All these years — approximately 7,967 since I first started using and writing about Android — and somehow, rather miraculously, I’d never outright broken a phone.
Impressive, I know. But don’t let yourself get wrapped in awe yet, my fellow drop-dreading denizen: My streak of impeccable Android phone protection has officially come to a crashing halt.
Now, I didn’t technically drop my phone, mind you. And I didn’t technically break it myself, either. But it was definitely broken. And it happened on my watch.