Opinion: Don’t Let a Tech Slowdown Threaten Our Military
Credit to Author: Will Roper| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:00:00 +0000
The right software and digital engineering can take military aircraft back to the future.
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This Week in Security News: Pwn2Own Adds Industrial Control Systems to Hacking Contest and Cyber Crooks Target ESports
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:05:25 +0000
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. Among news from this week, learn about Pwn2Own’s new hacking contest that will take place in Miami next year. Also, as October was Cybersecurity Awareness Month, read about best…
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Read moreWhat’s new in macOS Catalina ‘Security and Privacy’?
Credit to Author: Amrapali Nimgire| Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:17:53 +0000
Apple released macOS 10.15 (Catalina) on 7th Oct 2019 and now it is publicly available for download. With multiple features presented at the WWDC 2019, here’s an overview of the new security and privacy features introduced in Catalina. Enhanced Gatekeeper Gatekeeper, is an important outer layer of security, designed to…
Read moreGoogle strengthens Chrome's site isolation to protect browser against its own vulnerabilities
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 04:49:00 -0700
Google is telling Chrome users that it has extended an advanced defensive technology to protect against attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in the browser’s Blink rendering engine.
Chrome 77, which launched in September but was supplanted by Chrome 78 on Oct. 22, received the beefed-up site isolation, wrote Alex Moshchuk and Łukasz Anforowicz, two Google software engineers, in an Oct. 17 post to a company blog. “Site Isolation in Chrome 77 now helps defend against significantly stronger attacks,” the two said. “Site Isolation can now handle even severe attacks where the renderer process is fully compromised via a security bug, such as memory corruption bugs or Universal Cross-Site Scripting (UXSS) logic errors.”
WhatsApp’s Case Against NSO Group Hinges on a Tricky Legal Argument
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:03:32 +0000
The Facebook-owned messaging company is taking on a notorious malware vendor in what could be an uphill battle.
Read moreHow to Keep Your Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant Voice Recordings Private
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:59:17 +0000
Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant now all give you ways to opt out of human transcription of your voice snippets. Do it.
Read moreHow to and why you should disable LLMNR with Windows Server
Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution could enable a man-in-the-middle attack, so it’s best to disable the protocol when setting up Windows Server 2019.
Microsoft Patch Alert: October updates bring problems with Start, RDP, Ethernet, older VB programs
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:18:00 -0700
October started out on an extraordinarily low note. On Oct. 3, Microsoft released an “out of band” security update to protect all Windows users from an Internet Explorer scripting engine bug, CVE-2019-1367, once thought to be an imminent danger to all things (and all versions) Windows.
It was the third attempt to fix that security hole and each of the versions brought its own set of bugs.
Russian Hackers Are Still Targeting the Olympics
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 22:00:19 +0000
Fancy Bear has attacked 16 anti-doping agencies around the world, indicating that its Olympics grudge is far from over.
Read moreEarn your IoT security certification
Credit to Author: Insider Pro staff| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 04:59:00 -0700
Insider Pro is teaming up with CertNexus to offer subscribers access to an online course that leads to a Certified IoT Security Practitioner (CIoTSP) certification.
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