Hackers Can Clone Millions of Toyota, Hyundai, and Kia Keys
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 12:00:00 +0000
Encryption flaws in a common anti-theft feature expose vehicles from major manufacturers.
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The Best VPNs (2020): ExpressVPN, TunnelBear, Mullvad
Credit to Author: Scott Gilbertson| Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000
A VPN won’t solve all of your privacy problems, but it can help make you a less tempting target for hackers.
Read moreThe Best VPNs (2020): ExpressVPN, TunnelBear, Mullvad
Credit to Author: Scott Gilbertson| Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2020 14:00:00 +0000
A VPN won’t solve all of your privacy problems, but it can help make you a less tempting target for hackers.
Read moreWhat your business can do about the coronavirus … right now
Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 11:14:00 -0700
The Covid-19 crisis is the Black Swan event of our lifetime. Here's how to hold it all together (while keeping employees apart).
Read more12 security tips for the ‘work from home’ enterprise
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 06:26:00 -0700
If you or your employees are working from home while our governments lurch awkwardly through the current crisis, then there are several security considerations that must be explored.
Your enterprise outside the wall
Enterprises must consider the consequences of working from home in terms of systems access, access to internal IT infrastructure, bandwidth costs and data repatriation.
What this means, basically, is that when your worker accesses your data and/or databases remotely, then the risk to that data grows.
While at normal times the risk is only between the server, internal network and end user machine, external working adds public internet, local networks and consumer-grade security systems to the risk mix.
Take your time, get it right for March Patch Tuesday
Credit to Author: Greg Lambert| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:41:00 -0700
This is a big update to the Windows platform for the Microsoft March Patch Tuesday release cycle. Consisting of 115 patches, mostly to the Windows desktop, with almost all of the critical issues relating to browser-based scripting engine memory issues, this will be a difficult set of updates to release and manage.
The testing profile for the Windows desktop platform is very large, with a lower than usual exploitability/risk rating. For this month, we do not have any reports of publicly exploited or disclosed vulnerabilities (zero-days), so my recommendation is to take your time, test the changes to each platform, create a staged rollout plan and wait for future (potentially) imminent changes from Microsoft.
Come on, Microsoft! Is it really that hard to update Windows 10 right?
Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:47:00 -0700
Yesterday, on Patch Tuesday, as I was finishing up the column that follows lamenting the sorry state of Windows 10 patches and providing copious examples of things gone very wrong, a big, fat example landed in my lap (but happily not in my laptop). Word emerged that Microsoft had accidentally leaked news about a new Server Message Block (SMB) bug with a maximum severity rating, a.k.a. SMBGhost. The leak also said that this bug wasn’t patched in that day’s releases.
Patch Tuesday’s tomorrow. We're in uncharted territory. Get Automatic Updates paused.
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2020 07:06:00 -0700
It’s always a good idea to pause Windows updates just before they hit the rollout chute. This month, we’re facing two extraordinary issues that you need to take into account. Wouldn’t hurt if you told your friends and family, too.
Take last month’s Windows patches. Please. We had one patch, KB 4524244, that slid out on Patch Tuesday, clobbered an unknown number of machines (HP PCs with Ryzen processors got hit hard), then remained in “automatic download” status until it was finally pulled on Friday. We had another patch, KB 4532693, that gobbled desktop icons and moved files while performing a nifty trick with temporary user profiles. Microsoft never did fix that one.
Enterprise resilience: Backup and management tips for iOS, Mac
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2020 06:30:00 -0800
Apple’s solutions are seeing increasing use across the enterprise, but do you have a business resilience strategy in place in case things go wrong?
If you’re one of the estimated 73% of SMBs that have not yet made such preparation, now might be a good time to start.
Your data is your business
It’s challenging enough when a consumer user suffers data loss as precious memories and valuable information go up in the digital smoke. Natural disasters, technology and infrastructure problems or human-made problems such as burglary, cyberattacks or civil unrest can all impact the sanctity of your systems, whatever platform you use. It matters because in today’s connected world, your data is your business.
Apple, the FIDO Alliance and the future of passwords
Apple is the latest firm to join the FIDO Alliance, an industry standards group developing more secure ways to log in to online accounts and apps using multi-factor authentication (MFA), biometric authentication and physical security keys. Computerworld's Lucas Mearian joins Ken Mingis and Juliet Beauchamp to discuss the Apple move, how different forms of authentication work and how far away we are from a password-less world.