Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:56:51 +0000
“Off-Facebook Activity” will give users more control over their data, but Facebook needs up to 48 hours to aggregate your information into a format it can share with advertisers.
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Credit to Author: Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 16:00:00 +0000
A coordinated strike against 23 local governments is called the largest such hack from a single source.
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Several new vulnerability disclosures in Windows Remote Desktop Protocol suggest it’s time to stop using it. Here’s how.
Credit to Author: Gregg Keizer| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:53:00 -0700
The WebKit project – the open-source initiative that generates code for Apple’s Safari browser – quietly announced last week that it would follow in Mozilla’s footsteps and quash tracking technologies designed to follow users across the web.
In a short message on Aug. 14, the WebKit team pointed to its new Tracking Prevention Policy, a document that spells out its plans in detail, including what types of tracking it will create and how it will deal with any side effects.
“We have implemented or intend to implement technical protections in WebKit to prevent all tracking practices included in this policy,” the document read. “If we discover additional tracking techniques, we may expand this policy to include the new techniques and we may implement technical measures to prevent those techniques.”
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 12:00:00 +0000
First promised back in January, the first YubiKey for iOS will help cut down on painful password clutter starting… now.
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Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 22:48:46 +0000
Twitter and Facebook say they’ve taken down misinformation campaigns from China that cast pro-democracy activists as ISIS members and cockroaches.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 19:53:49 +0000
Apple reintroduced a previously fixed bug in iOS 12.4, which has led to a jailbreak revival.
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Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 09:33:00 -0700
No doubt you recall the warning back in February that Windows 7, Server 2008 and Server 2008 R2 patches starting in July would use the SHA-2 encryption protocol. If you want to install Win7 patches issued after July, you have to get the SHA-2 translator installed.
A few days ago, Microsoft tossed a zinger into the FAQs down at the bottom of its SHA-2 post, 2019 SHA-2 Code Signing Support requirement for Windows and WSUS. That post now says that you have to install a seemingly unrelated patch, KB 3133977, entitled, BitLocker can’t encrypt drives because of service crashes in svchost.exe process in Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2.
Credit to Author: Jon Clay (Global Threat Communications)| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 14:05:16 +0000
There are many different threats targeting many different areas of a corporate network. Have you ever wondered how those threats are stopped? What threats impact which areas of a network? What technology detects and blocks those threats? I wanted to build an interactive graphic to answer those questions. This interactive infographic can help you understand…
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Read moreCredit to Author: Greg Young (Vice President for Cybersecurity)| Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2019 13:22:58 +0000
Real enterprises are messy places. One messy reality is that enterprises don’t manage all their endpoints. A smart colleague turned me onto using the % of endpoints and servers managed as a prime security metric. On one end of the spectrum are places like universities that maybe manage 10% of the endpoints on their network….
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