Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 22:30:55 +0000
In a shift toward transparency, the National Security Agency announced a bug that could have left over 900 million PCs vulnerable to attack.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 20:38:27 +0000
The Kremlin likely hacked the oil giant. Its next play: selectively release—and even forge—documents. Did the US learn enough from 2016 to ignore them?
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 05:06:00 -0800
Imagine all your tax documentation could be examined by officials from any government merely on suspicion. That’s the future some governments are pushing for when they demand Apple puts security backdoors into its products.
Think about the nature of security backdoors:
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:36:00 -0800
Microsoft today figuratively told Window 7 – which ended support with a final security update – not to let the door hit it on the way out.
“Ten-year-old tech just can’t keep up,” Jared Spataro, an executive on the Microsoft 365 team, wrote in a post to a company blog. “As we end support for Windows 7, I encourage you to transition to these newer options right away.”
Not surprisingly, Spataro named those newer options as Windows 10 to replace Windows 7, and Office 365 to fill in for the retiring-in-October Office 2010. Combined, they make up the bulk of Microsoft 365, the business subscription plan Microsoft wants all customers to adopt.
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:30:00 -0800
Apple turned down a request from U.S. Attorney General William Barr this week, saying it will not help unlock two iPhones used by a terrorist suspect last month in the deadly shooting at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Fla.
Barr said the shooter, 21-year-old Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, acted alone when he shot and killed three service members and wounded several others, including two sheriff’s deputies responding to the attack. Alshamrani, a member of the Saudi Air Force and an aviation student at the base, was shot dead on the scene by police.
Credit to Author: Klint Finley| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000
After Tuesday, Microsoft will no longer issue security updates for the operating system, leaving users who don’t upgrade vulnerable to malware.
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Credit to Author: Angry Staff Officer| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000
It took decades, but the galaxy finally has a tactical and operational genius.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 23:09:37 +0000
The fragility of global internet infrastructure has left the entire Red Sea region struggling to connect.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 05:48:00 -0800
Over the past few years we’ve seen a few security holes that have drawn Chicken Little warnings and vast amounts of unthinking press reports. When you turn on a local news program and hear from the hometown weather reporter that you really need to get Windows patched, a bit of skepticism might be in order.
Today’s Patch Tuesday appears to be headed down the same well-worn chute.
Brian Krebs, the security guru with impeccable credentials, fired an opening salvo in his blog post yesterday:
