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+14 +1'Next generation' flaws found on computer processors
Researchers have found eight new flaws in computer central processing units that resemble the Meltdown and Spectre bugs revealed in January, a German computing magazine reported on Thursday.
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+14 +1Twitter urges users to change passwords after computer glitch
Twitter Inc urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some of them to be stored in plain text on its internal computer system.
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+20 +1It’s Impossible to Prove Your Laptop Hasn’t Been Hacked. I Spent Two Years Finding Out.
I spent two years trying to get someone to tamper with my laptop, so I could then detect it. Somewhere along the way, I realized this might never happen.
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+25 +134 major tech companies are uniting to fight cyberattacks
A group of 34 companies, including Dell, Facebook and Microsoft, have signed a Cybersecurity Tech Accord promising a united front against cyberattacks.
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+16 +1Facebook and Cambridge Analytica
Crypto-Gram: April 15, 2018 - Schneier on Security
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+12 +1The FCC's Evidence-Optional Blacklist Of Huawei Is About Protectionism, Not National Security
Last week we noted that Best Buy was the latest to join a growing, evidence-optional blacklisting of Huawei based on ambiguous "national security" concerns. We also noted how despite a lot of hand-wringing on certain fronts for most of this...
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+9 +15 surefire cloud security certifications to boost your career
Boost your IT career—and salary—with a certification in cloud security. Here's the ones with the best payback.
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Dealing with deviants on your network
It's a security manager's nightmare. Network logs of Internet activity at MassMutual Financial Group indicated a top executive was spending much of his time in chat rooms, where he claimed to have molested his 12-year-old daughter.
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+33 +1It just got much easier to wage record-breaking DDoSes
Exploits that abuse memcached servers threaten the stability of the Internet.
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+21 +1The U.S. Intel Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical
We've noted for some time how Chinese hardware vendor Huawei has been consistently accused of spying on American citizens without any substantive, public evidence. You might recall that these accusations flared up several years ago, resulting in...
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+15 +1Video Tours of Qubes OS
A reasonably secure OS. A Video Tour of Qubes 3.1 by Matthew Wilson.
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+8 +1IoT standards: A starting point, but not the finishing line
The latest Gartner Hype Cycle for IoT Standards and Protocols profiles 30 standards, 15 of which have been marked to deliver “high business benefit.” Here’s help to make sense of them.
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+16 +1Skype can't fix a nasty security bug without a massive code rewrite
The bug grants a low-level user access to every corner of the operating system.
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+3 +1The State of Phishing & W-2s
“We expect W-2 scams to continue to rise because of the success attackers had in the past several years," alert says.
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+1 +1Charging Your Phone In Public? Watch That Port! - Genisys® Credit Union
View our blog for tips on saving and budgeting your money, getting accounts started, help avoiding scams and more.
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+15 +1Nontraditional pathways to a cybersecurity career
Interested in an infosec career, but not sure you have the right background? How these high-profile cybersecurity professionals got started might surprise you.
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+35 +1Finnish firm detects new Intel security flaw
A new security flaw has been found in Intel hardware which could enable hackers to access corporate laptops remotely, Finnish cybersecurity specialist F-Secure said on Friday.
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+39 +1A tribute to James Dolan, co-creator of SecureDrop, who has tragically passed away at age 36
In memory of computer security expert James Dolan, 1981-2017.
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+14 +1Warning: Microsoft's Meltdown and Spectre patch is bricking some AMD PCs
We've already seen compatibility issues with some antivirus tools, and now some AMD users are reporting that the KB4056892 patch is rendering their computer unusable. A further issue -- error 0x800f0845 -- means that it is not possible to perform a rollback.
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+16 +1You absolutely must secure your home router and you probably can't
Lucian Constantin's Motherboard guide to protecting your home router is full of excellent, nearly impossible-to-follow advice that you should follow, but probably won't.
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