games.slashdot.org - Researchers at cybersecurity firm Check Point say three vulnerabilities chained together could have allowed hackers to take control of any of Fortnite's 200 million players. "The flaws, if exploited, would have stolen the account access token set on the gamer's device once they entered their pass...
yro.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Fortune: Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a bill Wednesday aimed at creating federal standards of privacy protection for major internet companies like Facebook, Amazon, and Google. The bill, titled the American Data Dissemination Act, requires the F...
grahamcluley.com - Why a business spat resulted in Liberia falling off the internet, how the US Government shutdown is impacting website security, and the perplexing world of extreme IoT devices. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer...
yro.slashdot.org - According to The Wall Street Journal, federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation to see if Huawei allegedly stole trade secrets from U.S. companies. The probe is reportedly built out of civil lawsuits against the telecommunications firm. The Hill reports: People familiar with the...
news.slashdot.org - pgmrdlm quotes a report from CBS News: For the first time, a new network of satellites will soon be able to track all commercial airplanes in real time, anywhere on the planet. Currently, planes are largely tracked by radar on the ground, which doesn't work over much of the world's oceans. The fi...
blog.knowbe4.com - Troy Hunt, the site admin of Have I Been Pwned just released some astounding news. A new data breach of astounding proportions has just been made public, we are talking astronomical numbers. He has called this data set "Collection#1" and it consists of:
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google is implementing major new Play Store rules for how Android's "SMS" and "Call Log" permissions are used. New Play Store rules will only allow certain types of apps to request phone call logs and SMS permissions, and any apps that don't ...
news.slashdot.org - YouTube has set stricter guidelines for "harmful and dangerous" prank and challenge videos. From a report: "We've always had policies to make sure what's funny doesn't cross the line into also being harmful or dangerous," reads the YouTube guidelines. "Our Community Guidelines prohibit content th...
blog.knowbe4.com - Ransomware is using a variety of methods to reduce or nullify the effectiveness of data backups, writes Maria Korolov at CSO. Restoring from a backup is one of the best strategies that organizations can use to recover from a ransomware attack, so it’s obvious why attackers would want to target th...
news.slashdot.org - Federal prosecutors are pursuing a criminal investigation of China's Huawei for allegedly stealing trade secrets from U.S. business partners, including the technology behind a robotic device that T-Mobile used to test smartphones, WSJ reported Wednesday. From a report: The investigation grew in p...
techspot.com - Called Modlishka, the tool is a reverse proxy which means it sits between the user being targeted and the legitimate website. Traditional phishing tools were complicated and required extensive coding and web programming skills, but this simple tool appears to…
news.slashdot.org - This week, Wikipedia celebrates its 18th birthday. If the massive crowdsourced encyclopedia project were human, then in most countries, it would just now be considered a legal adult. But in truth, the free online encyclopedia has long played the role of the Internet's good grown-up. From a story...
zdnet.com - Hackers have breached the computer systems of a South Korean government agency that oversees weapons and munitions acquisitions for the country's military forces. The hack took place in October 2018. Local press reported this week[1, 2, 3] that hackers breached 30 computers and stole internal d...
tech.slashdot.org - Microsoft is making some big changes to Cortana in Windows 10. The company intends to decouple search and Cortana in the Windows 10 taskbar, allowing voice queries to be handled separately to typing in a search box to find documents and files. From a report: This change will be implemented in the...
blog.knowbe4.com - What keeps you up at night? These are the biggest risks facing our world in 2019. Top world leaders were surveyed for the latest edition of the World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report. Environmental threats dominate the list for the third year in row - both in terms of impact and likelihood.
themaineedge.com - Bangor’s Phish fans elated for band’s imminent return - Music - Buzz When the band Phish announced summer tour dates last week, revealing a two-night return to Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion in Bangor on June 25 and June 26, many local fans began mak
jambase.com - JamBase’s Scott Bernstein weighs in on his his highlights from Tuesday aboard Jam Cruise 17, including Leftover Salmon, Umphrey’s McGee and Matador! Soul Sounds. Carlos Santana and his namesake band will be joined by the Doobie Brothers on the dual-anniversary Supernatural Now Tour. ...
bleepingcomputer.com - Google's search results will look like a deserted town according to the search giant, with no article titles, no images, and no news summaries if the SERP templates following the EU Copyright Directive provisions will go live
tech.slashdot.org - In a bid to deliver better software experience on devices powered by 64-bit processors in the coming years, Google aims to shift Android towards a 64-bit app ecosystem. From a report: The company has now shed more light on the transition and has announced that developers will have to submit a 64-...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - “What I did 50 years ago is 4,000 times easier to do today because of technology,” says Frank Abagnale, 70-year-old FBI security consultant and former con man. His exploits as a check forger and impostor in the 1960s were showcased in the 2002 film Catch Me If You Can. Back then, it took a lot … ...
news.slashdot.org - Mozilla has announced that it is closing Firefox Test Pilot, an experimental program it launched three years ago. Firefox Test Pilot allowed users to try out potential new built-in Firefox features to understand if they are popular with users. The company says the program was used by an average o...
digitaltrends.com - Hackers are targetting computers with ransomware that scours an infected network in order to pinpoint and attack and enterprises with big money. Named "Ryuk," the ransomware has been around since 2017, but only recently has there an uptick in successful attacks, according to research by FireEye.
empr.com - To shed light on issues of cybersecurity in medical practices, MPR spoke to Michael J Sacopulos, JD, CEO of Medical Risk Institute (MRI), a firm that provides “proactive counsel” to the healthcare community to identify where liability risks originate and to reduce or remove those risks.
inforisktoday.com - Cybersecurity , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Network & Perimeter Live Webinar: Securing Organizations from Remote Desktop Protocol Exploits Presented by Expanse 60 minutes Insecure implementations of Remote Desktop Protocol have exposed organizations to serious risks of cyber at...
govinfosecurity.com - Cybersecurity , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Network & Perimeter Live Webinar: Securing Organizations from Remote Desktop Protocol Exploits Presented by Expanse 60 minutes Insecure implementations of Remote Desktop Protocol have exposed organizations to serious risks of cyber at...
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tech.slashdot.org - Seventy-four percent of Facebook users are unaware that Facebook records a list of their interests for ad-targeting purposes, according to a new study from the Pew Institute. From a report: Participants in the study were first pointed to Facebook's ad preferences page, which lists out a person's ...
bankinfosecurity.com - Cybersecurity , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Network & Perimeter Live Webinar: Securing Organizations from Remote Desktop Protocol Exploits Presented by Expanse 60 minutes Insecure implementations of Remote Desktop Protocol have exposed organizations to serious risks of cyber at...
