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Google launches leaked-password checker, will bake it into Chrome in December

October 4, 2019 0 Comments Browsers, chrome, firefox, Google, Security

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 04:06:00 -0700

Google has launched a web-based hacked-password checker, part of its efforts to bake an alert system into Chrome.

Called “Password Checker,” the service examines the username-password combinations stored in Chrome’s own password manager and reports back on those authentication pairings that have been exposed in publicly-known data breaches.

The web version can be found at passwords.google.com<>, the umbrella site for Chrome users who run the browser after logging in with their Google account, then use that to synchronize data – including passwords – between copies of Chrome on different devices.

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5 industries that will be disrupted by blockchain

October 3, 2019 0 Comments Blockchain, IT Leadership, IT Strategy, Security, Technology Industry

Credit to Author: Bob Violino| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:37:00 -0700

Here are five major industries that will benefit from blockchain technology in the near future: financial services and banking, government, healthcare, energy, and transportation and logistics.

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The Internet’s Horrifying Way to Get Google Apps on Huawei Phones

October 3, 2019 0 Comments gear, Security

Credit to Author: Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 13:00:00 +0000

Just make a Chinese website your device’s remote administrator. It’ll be fine!

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Throwback Thursday: Everybody gets an F

October 3, 2019 0 Comments email, Security

Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 03:00:00 -0700

As the IT communications manager at this university, pilot fish is the person who sends out memos about IT policy to users. And he does just that when a phishing email starts circulating on campus.

Never send your user name and password to anyone via email, he warns them, and to give them an example of what to look out for, he pastes in the text of the phishing attempt.

Within minutes, his inbox is flooded with responses from students sending him their campus passwords, their Gmail passwords, their Yahoo passwords and more.

Sharky is looking for fish, not phish. Send me your true tales of IT life at sharky@computerworld.com. You can also subscribe to the Daily Shark Newsletter.

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Explained: security orchestration

October 2, 2019 0 Comments automated threat response, explained, Incident Response, incident response protocols, orchestration, Security, security orchestration, siem, soar

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 19:20:10 +0000

Security orchestration is a regulator that makes sure security solutions, often from different vendors, work well together to automate response and keep organizations safe.

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Time to install Microsoft's mainstream September patches – and avoid the dregs

October 2, 2019 0 Comments Microsoft, Security, Windows

Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:00:00 -0700

It’s a smelter-weight slapdown.

In one corner you have the Chicken Little contingent, which insists that September’s IE zero-day patch must be important because Microsoft marked it as “Exploited: Yes” and memorialized it with an extremely odd patch on a Monday, followed in Keystone Kops fashion with a stumbling trail of follow-ons.

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How Incognito Google Maps Protects You—and How It Doesn’t

October 2, 2019 0 Comments Security, Security / Privacy

Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 15:17:11 +0000

Turning on the new Incognito Mode in Google Maps won’t make you as invisible as it might sound.

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Blind Spots in AI Just Might Help Protect Your Privacy

October 2, 2019 0 Comments Security, Security / Privacy

Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 11:00:00 +0000

Researchers have found a potential silver lining in so-called adversarial examples, using it to shield sensitive data from snoops.

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Post-retirement Windows 7 patches: Not just for the big dogs now

October 2, 2019 0 Comments Microsoft, Security, Windows

Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2019 05:29:00 -0700

Microsoft on Tuesday changed its plans for selling Windows 7 post-retirement support, saying that it will offer patches-for-a-price to any business, no matter how small, that’s willing to pay.

“Through January 2023, we will extend the availability of paid Windows 7 Extended Security Updates (ESU) to businesses of all sizes,” Jared Spataro, an executive in the Microsoft 365 group, wrote in a post to a company blog.

Microsoft had announced the ESU program in September 2018. Since April, when the company started selling ESU, only customers with volume licensing deals for Windows 7 Enterprise or Windows 10 Professional have been eligible to purchase the support add-on.

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How to safely erase data under Windows

October 2, 2019 0 Comments Security, Windows

Bitlocker and self-encrypting hard drives can make it easier to erase data so that it cannot be recovered. This is how the “crypto-erase” method works.