Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2019 15:12:30 +0000
Nearly two decades ago, a company called Interpeak created a network protocol that became an industry standard. It also had severe bugs that are only now coming to light.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 10:16:00 -0700
So you think Windows 10 patching is getting better? Not if this month’s Keystone Kops reenactment is an indicator.
In a fervent frenzy, well-meaning but ill-informed bloggers, international news outlets, even little TV stations, enjoyed a hearty round of “The Windows sky is falling!” right after the local weather. It wasn’t. It isn’t – no matter what you may have read or heard.
Microsoft has a special way of telling folks how important its patches might be. Every individual security hole, listed by its CVE number, has an “Exploitability Assessment” consisting of:
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Andy Greenberg| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 13:00:00 +0000
A NotPetya lawsuit, bricked Mac Pros, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Two former intelligence community whistle-blowers say the life of whoever wrote the Trump-Ukraine complaint has been permanently altered.
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Credit to Author: Matt Laslo| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 20:14:31 +0000
An eventful week on Capitol Hill is only the beginning of a very long road.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 19:18:15 +0000
Any iPhone device from 2011 to 2017 could soon be jailbroken, thanks to an underlying flaw that there’s no way to patch.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:18:39 +0000
Trump has publicly played down Russia’s role in the 2016 election. But even privately, he trusts conspiracy theories more than US intelligence agencies.
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Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 21:27:00 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 18:41:42 +0000
The results of the 2019 Defcon Voting Village are in—and they paint an ugly picture for voting machine security.
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Credit to Author: Garrett M. Graff| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 17:55:19 +0000
Acting director of national intelligence Joseph Maguire answered Congress’s questions about the Ukraine whistle-blower complaint—but not always to satisfaction.
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