What Is Credential Dumping?
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Modern network intrusions thrive on a counterintuitive trick: stealing passwords from computers that hackers have already compromised.
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China Distributes Spyware at Its Border and Beyond
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Sat, 06 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Plus, Cyber Command warns about Outlook bugs, Virginia criminalizes deepfake porn, and more top security news from this week.
Read moreThe Biggest Cybersecurity Crises of 2019 So Far
Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2019 11:00:00 +0000
Ransomware attacks, supply chain hacks, escalating tensions with Iran—the first six months of 2019 have been anything but boring.
Read moreAirport Facial Recognition, How Abusers Exploit Basic Apps, and More News
Credit to Author: Alex Baker-Whitcomb| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 21:53:24 +0000
Catch up on the most important news from today in two minutes or less.
Read moreThe Simple Way Apple and Google Let Domestic Abusers Stalk Victims
Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 14:50:40 +0000
To prove a point about common location-sharing apps, I asked my wife to use them to spy on me.
Read moreI Opted Out of Facial Recognition at the Airport—It Wasn’t Easy
Credit to Author: Allie Funk| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 13:00:00 +0000
Opinion: We’ve been assured that facial recognition technology is secure, reliable, and accurate. That’s far from certain.
Read moreHow and why Apple users should switch to DuckDuckGo for search
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 07:54:00 -0700
Like liberty for all, privacy demands vigilance, and that’s why Apple users who care about those things are moving to DuckDuckGo for search.
Why use DuckDuckGo?
Privacy is under attack.
It doesn’t take much effort to prove this truth. At time of writing, recent news is full of creeping privacy erosion:
- We’ve seen video conferencing solutions that surreptitiously install software on your Macs.
- A face-changing photography app perhaps implicated in the assembly of a vast database of faces.
- A household name in smart speakers has shared private conversations with people you don’t know, including chatter you didn’t know was recorded in the first place.
And then there’s Duck Duck Go.
Memory-Lane Monday: Even worse than you thought
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 03:00:00 -0700
This government agency has cashiers’ stations for handling transactions with the public, and the treasurer’s office decides it needs new software to run those stations, according to a pilot fish in IT.
And there’s going to be one sign-on and password for all the stations, brag the higher-ups.
Bad idea, protest all the IT programmers and system administrators. For one thing, having a single user sign-on to the system will prevent tracking who is completing each transaction. They cite security, accountability and separation of duties, but their protests fall on deaf ears.
The vendor rep shows up one day, and he and the treasurer do a presentation for an audience that includes IT managers. The two sound excited, and a touch proud, when they tell everyone that the cashiers will sign on with the user ID “Cash.” They don’t share the top-secret password, though; that’s just for the cashiers to know.
How to take control of Face ID (with tools you may not know exist)
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2019 09:00:00 -0700
If you travel frequently and use an iPhone or iPad, then you simply must familiarize yourself with these two tips – they’ll make it much easier to secure your device and its contents when you are on the move.
In praise of Face ID
I’ve become very used to using Face ID. It’s seamless.
On the iPhone, I like that I can pay for groceries with a look and find it much easier to use in the dark than the Home button.
My iPad experience is similar, but I do get annoyed sometimes that I must raise the tablet slightly to get the face angle right – this isn’t always as intuitive as I would like.
All the same, given Apple’s claim that there is a 1 in 50,000 chance that someone else’s fingerprint will unlock your iPhone and a 1 in 1,000,000 chance that it will be unlocked by another person’s face, I’ll always opt for the highly secure choice.
What is the dark web? And what will you find there?
The dark web may sound ominous, but it’s really a catch-all term for the part of the internet that isn't indexed by search engines. Stay tuned for a guided tour of the web's less mainstream regions.