it.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Washington Post: Insects around the world are in a crisis, according to a small but growing number of long-term studies showing dramatic declines in invertebrate populations. A new report suggests that the problem is more widespread than scientists rea...
hardware.slashdot.org - The "real version" of Photoshop is coming to the iPad next year, complete with a user interface similar to the desktop application and all the main tools. Ars Technica reports: Photoshop for iPad has a user interface structured similarly to the desktop application. It is immediately familiar to ...
hardware.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Printer maker Epson is under fire this month from activist groups after a software update prevented customers from using cheaper, third party ink cartridges. It's just the latest salvo in a decades-long effort by printer manufacturers to block...
news.slashdot.org - A new study from Pew Research Center found that most Americans can't tell social media bots from real humans, and most are convinced bots are bad. "Only 47 percent of Americans are somewhat confident they can identify social media bots from real humans," reports The Verge. "In contrast, most Amer...
hardware.slashdot.org - Casey Johnston, writing for The Outline: Apple never actually caved to user complaints that its top-of-the-line computers developed sticky or dead keyboards very easily, despite having now been served with several keyboard-related class action lawsuits. In June, the company offered to repair comp...
bleepingcomputer.com - Sellers have been modifying lower end NVIDIA graphics cards and selling them more powerful cards online. In a recent version of the GPU-Z graphics card information utility, TechPowerUp has added the ability to now detect these fake NVIDIA cards.
science.slashdot.org - CNBC is reporting that Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen has died from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Vulcan Inc. said Monday that Allen passed this afternoon in Seattle at the age of 65. From the report: "While most knew Paul Allen as a technologist and philanthropist, for us he was a m...
tech.slashdot.org - An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Morgan Knutson, a UI designer who seven years ago, spent eight months at Google working on its recently shuttered social networking product Google+ and who, in light of the shutdown, decided to share on Twitter his personal experience with how ...
cuinfosecurity.com - Cybersecurity , Data Breach , Governance 12 Ways to Defeat Two-Factor Authentication Presented by KnowBe4 60 minutes Everyone knows that two-factor authentication (2FA) is more secure than a simple login name and password, but too many people think that 2FA is a perfect, unhackable solution. ...
govinfosecurity.com - Cybersecurity , Data Breach , Governance 12 Ways to Defeat Two-Factor Authentication Presented by KnowBe4 60 minutes Everyone knows that two-factor authentication (2FA) is more secure than a simple login name and password, but too many people think that 2FA is a perfect, unhackable solution. ...
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mobile.slashdot.org - New submitter JustChapman writes: Local Dallas/Fort Worth WFAA is reporting a major outage of AT&T U-Verse fiber internet, due to a lightening strike at a switching facility in Richardson, TX. Apparently the strike took out primary and secondary power systems, setting fire to the building. On...
tech.slashdot.org - "Facebook will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations in the run-up to and during next month's U.S. midterm elections," reports Reuters. The latest efforts are to reduce voter manipulation across its platform. From the report...
inforisktoday.com - Cybersecurity , Data Breach , Governance 12 Ways to Defeat Two-Factor Authentication Presented by KnowBe4 60 minutes Everyone knows that two-factor authentication (2FA) is more secure than a simple login name and password, but too many people think that 2FA is a perfect, unhackable solution. ...
tech.slashdot.org - When a Stanford researcher removed all the duplicate and fake comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission last year, he found that 99.7 percent of public comments -- about 800,000 in all -- were pro-net neutrality. From a report: "With the fog of fraud and spam lifted from the comme...
news.softpedia.com - An almost 400% increase in crypto mining malware targeting iOS devices and devices using the Safari browsers has been observed by Check Point’s research team while analyzing data to build their Global Threat Index for September 2018. “Crypto-mining continues to be the dominant threat facing orga...
computerworld.com - The economist who predicted the 2008 financial collapse has been telling congressional leaders that bitcoin and blockchain represent a significant threat to the stability of the financial marketplace. But he's getting pushback.
news.softpedia.com - A new malware campaign discovered by the Cisco Talos Intelligence Group uses RTF documents to exploit the CVE-2017-11882 Microsoft Office Memory Corruption Vulnerability to distribute the Agent Tesla data stealer RAT malware. To be more exact adversaries behind this malware campaign are exploiti...
news.slashdot.org - Catalin Cimpanu, reporting for ZDNet: The voter information for approximately 35 million US citizens is being peddled on a popular hacking forum, two threat intelligence firms have discovered. "To our knowledge this represents the first reference on the criminal underground of actors selling or d...
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thejournal.com - The most common form of phishing email in education tends to include an attached invoice; 66 percent of hacker attempts use the attached invoice ploy to get unwary recipients to click on an infected link; another 28 percent use a payment notification scheme; and 6 percent try online order tricks.
bleepingcomputer.com - It has been almost two weeks since Microsoft released updates for Windows 10 as part of their October 2018 Patch Tuesday and what a long two weeks it has been. In this article we will take a look at the known bugs and how to resolve them.
science.slashdot.org - Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos predicted Monday that we'll have one trillion humans in the solar system one day -- and he showed off how the rocket company plans to help get there. "I won't be alive to see the fulfillment of that long term mission," Bezos said at the Wired 25th anniversary summit...
news.softpedia.com - In almost simultaneous announcements, Apple, Microsoft, and Google have announced that the older 1.0 and 1.1 versions of the Transport Layer Security (TLS) HTTPS security protocol will be deprecated in their web browsers in the first half of 2020. The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is u...
zdnet.com - The voter information for approximately 35 million US citizens is being peddled on a popular hacking forum, two threat intelligence firms have discovered. "To our knowledge this represents the first reference on the criminal underground of actors selling or distributing lists of 2018 voter regi...
news.slashdot.org - The charmingly outdated media player Winamp is being reinvented as a platform-agnostic audio mobile app that brings together all your music, podcasts, and streaming services to a single location. From a report: It's an ambitious relaunch, but the company behind it says it's still all about the mi...
informationsecuritybuzz.com - A report by Sky News has revealed that the MoD and its partners failed to protect military and defence data in 37 incidents in 2017. In light of this news, please see a comment from Jake Moore, cyber security expert at ESET UK, on what this means for national security and how future incidents can...
tech.slashdot.org - Microsoft today said it plans to disable support for Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 in Edge and Internet Explorer browsers by the first half of 2020. From a report: "January 19th of next year marks the 20th anniversary of TLS 1.0, the inaugural version of the protocol that encrypts an...
news.softpedia.com - Sacramento's Eddy Steven Sandoval Lopez, 22, and Deshari Saivohn Frederick, 21, were charged today on an eleven-count indictment for distributing controlled substances, conspiracy, and use of a firearm in furtherance of drug trafficking. The two were apprehended after an undercover investigation...
hardware.slashdot.org - Ian Cutress, writing for AnandTech: One of today's announcements threw up an interesting footnote worthy of further investigation. With its latest products, HP announced that their mainstream desktop platforms would be shipped with up to 32GB of memory, which was further expandable up to 128GB. I...
