Credit to Author: Elham Khatami| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 22:11:45 +0000
As Iran’s countrywide internet shutdown approaches a full week, Iranian Americans are increasingly desperate to connect with friends and relatives.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 20:02:13 +0000
Credential stuffing, where names and passwords leaked in previous breaches are reused, strikes again.
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Credit to Author: Evan Schuman| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:41:00 -0800
News reports last week — subsequently confirmed by a Facebook executive’s tweet — that the Facebook iOS app was videotaping users without notice should serve as a critical heads up to enterprise IT and security execs that mobile devices are every bit as risky as they feared. And a very different bug, planted by cyberthieves, presents even more frightening camera-spying issues with Android.
On the iOS issue, the confirmation tweet from Guy Rosen, who is Facebook’s vice president of Integrity (go ahead and insert whatever joke you want about Facebook having a vice president of integrity; for me, it’s way too easy a shot), said, “We recently discovered our iOS app incorrectly launched in landscape. In fixing that last week in v246, we inadvertently introduced a bug where the app partially navigates to the camera screen when a photo is tapped. We have no evidence of photos/videos uploaded due to this.”
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 07:43:00 -0800
Apple remains a highly secure choice for enterprise professionals, but security threats remain and the environment requires sophisticated endpoint management tools, confirmed Build America Mutual (BAM) CTO, David McIntyre.
BAM is one of the leading U.S. municipal bond insurers and has insured over $65 billion since launch in 2012. It also has the rare distinction of being a fintech firm that is completely based on Macs.
Credit to Author: Trend Micro| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:05:56 +0000
Despite the growing popularity of social media and messaging apps, email remains the preferred way to communicate online for millions of Americans. And the bad guys know it. Of the 28.6 billion cyber-threats Trend Micro blocked globally in the first half of 2019, over 24.3 billion were carried by email. That’s 91%. Many of these…
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Credit to Author: Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 14:00:00 +0000
The Supreme Court ruled that cops need a warrant to attach a GPS device to your car. But if you find one, can you remove it?
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2019 12:00:00 +0000
The recent focus on ICS raises the possibility that Iran’s APT33 is exploring physically disruptive cyberattacks.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 06:09:00 -0800
Although we’ve been promised no “C” or “D” week second cumulative updates for the rest of the year — at least for Windows — Microsoft has acknowledged a bug it created in last week’s Patch Tuesday Office patches, and now promises that it’ll update the bad fixes on most machines this week or next. Those are “C” week and “D” week, respectively.
The cause du jour: a bug in all of this month’s Office security patches that throws an error in Access saying, “Query xxxx is corrupt,” when in fact the query in question is just fine. Microsoft describes the erroneous error message on its Office Support site:
Credit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:12:03 +0000
It doesn’t take a wily prediction to see that the cycles of tech procurement and planning are increasingly compressed. In enterprise IT, the two largest forces at play are business changes and technology changes. These two major forces are somewhat independent; a lot of tech change happened during the last economic downturn, and in fact…
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