Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000
By releasing its homegrown differential privacy tool, Google will make it easier for any company to boost its privacy bona fides.
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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:42:00 -0700
Apple is expected to introduce its own Tile-competing tracking device(s), perhaps as soon as fall. So, what are the advantages of the device, what can we expect, and what happens next?
There are hundreds of tracking devices available today. These cost anything from tens to hundreds of dollars and in most cases require you sign-up to a network provider for SIM card-based network access.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 21:04:05 +0000
Brokers of so-called zero day exploits are paying out more for Android than iOS—which would have been unthinkable until recently.
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Microsoft recommends setting up multi-factor authentication in Windows 10 for better security, but you have to disable basic or legacy authentication first.
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:00:00 +0000
A newly disclosed vulnerability in Supermicro hardware brings the threat of malicious USBs to corporate servers.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000
Attacking Iran, a web host data breach, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:56:41 +0000
Like so many Twitter attacks lately, it was a SIM swap.
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Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 21:03:34 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:27:00 -0700
What happens when Microsoft releases eight – count ‘em, eight – concurrent beta test versions of Win10 version 1909 without fixing bugs introduced into 1903 on Patch Tuesday?
Pan. De. Moaaan. Ium.
No doubt, you recall the first wave of pain inflicted by the August 2019 patching regimen. Microsoft somehow managed to mess up Visual Basic (an old custom programming language), Visual Basic for Applications (for Office macros) and VBScript (a largely forgotten language primarily used inside Internet Explorer). Folks running applications in any of those languages would, on occasion, receive “invalid procedure call error” messages when using apps that had been working for decades.
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:01:56 +0000
For two years, a handful of websites have indiscriminately hacked thousands of iPhones.
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