Google Calls Out Safari for Privacy Flaws
Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 14:00:00 +0000
Facial recognition, iCloud encryption, and the rest of this week’s top security news.
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The Doomsday Clock Moves Closer Than Ever to Midnight
Credit to Author: Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 13:00:00 +0000
Since the advent of the clock—even during the peak years of the Cold War—the minute hand has never advanced past the 11:58 mark.
Read moreScraping the Web Is a Powerful Tool. Clearview AI Abused It
Credit to Author: Louise Matsakis| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2020 12:00:00 +0000
The facial recognition startup claims it collected billions of photos from sites like Facebook and Twitter. What does the practice mean for the open web?
Read morePatreon Can’t Solve Its Porn Pirate Problem
Credit to Author: Cecilia D’Anastasio| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:18:04 +0000
Two years ago, Patreon promised to crack down on piracy site Yiff.Party. Now it says its hands are tied.
Read moreGoogle and Microsoft have gone too far
Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:55:00 -0800
Google and Microsoft are using dark pattern design to trick or force users to do things they never intended. Is it time to switch to more ethical browsers? (We list 10 alternatives.)
Read moreGet the January 2020 Patch Tuesday patches installed
Credit to Author: Woody Leonhard| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 13:27:00 -0800
This month has seen a whole lotta hand waving and sky-is-falling-caliber rhetoric, but the reality is much more prosaic. If you aren’t running a major network (and thus aren’t susceptible to the imminent problems with Remote Desktop Gateway, the Citrix network bugs or the whopping 334 patches in Oracle), there’s been little reason to install this month’s updates.
Tampa Bay Times hit with Ryuk ransomware attack
Credit to Author: David Ruiz| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 20:11:10 +0000
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| Florida newspaper The Tampa Bay Times suffered a Ryuk ransomware attack Thursday, making it the latest major victim of the notorious ransomware family that continues to rise in popularity. Categories: Tags: Chicago TribuneCrowdStrikeDCH Health SystememotetImperial CountyImperial County CaliforniaLake CityLake City FloridaLos Angeles TimesProPublicaransomRansom.RyukransomwareryukRyuk ransomwareTampa Bay Timestribune publishingtrickbotTrojan.TrickBotUS Coast Guard |
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Read moreDoes Your Domain Have a Registry Lock?
Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:37:11 +0000
If you’re running a business online, few things can be as disruptive or destructive to your brand as someone stealing your company’s domain name and doing whatever they wish with it. Even so, most major Web site owners aren’t taking full advantage of the security tools available to protect their domains from being hijacked. Here’s the story of one recent victim who was doing almost everything possible to avoid such a situation and still had a key domain stolen by scammers.
Read moreGoogle finds privacy holes in Safari’s ITP anti-tracking system
Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 16:36:06 +0000
Apple’s much-vaunted Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP) could leave users exposed to a raft of privacy issues, including – ironically – being tracked.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bhI2Ftj-42Y” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreInside Pwn2Own’s High-Stakes Industrial Hacking Contest
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:35:19 +0000
At Pwn2Own, hackers had no trouble dismantling systems that help run everything from car washes to nuclear plants.
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