Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:59:34 +0000
Google has announced a timetable for phasing out insecure file downloads in the Chrome browser starting with desktop version 81 due next month.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/pLJD5xgjayo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:44:10 +0000
Child safety groups penned an open letter to Facebook, urging a delay on encrypted messaging until sufficient safeguards are in place.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ns3LDtnKrEc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:20:55 +0000
Russia is still using social media in a sustained campaign to dabble in US affairs, according to FBI director Chris Wray.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/KHa-fKvAVcA” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:14:20 +0000
If you visit the website of renowned Canadian novelist Patrick deWitt today, you’ll see a surprising message. “THIS IS NOT PATRICK DEWITT”, it says.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/kJgrSESCUjo” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800
The days of enterprise security being a separate entity from mobile and desktop endpoint management are coming to an end, which should delight infrastructure and security teams who’ll eventually have more powerful machine learning-enabled tools at their disposal – and a single console through which to control them.
Security around mobile and desktop infrastructures has traditionally depended on what’s being managed; you purchase one for mobile devices and another for the rest of your endpoints, whether laptop or desktop.
While security threats are growing, particularly phishing attacks via email, SMS or hyperlinks, the amount of money companies spend on mobile security appears to be shrinking. And yet, the percentage of organizations that admit to having suffered a mobile compromise grew in 2019, according to a Verizon survey.
Credit to Author: Viraj Talikotkar| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:23:42 +0000
Very recently, the Coronavirus that apparently originated from the Wuhan province in China has created pandemonium across the world creating an atmosphere of a health crisis for the global populace. As the news of the deadly Coronavirus creates waves of panic across the globe, cyberattackers are lurking into this phenomenon…
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Credit to Author: David Nield| Date: Sun, 09 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000
You’ve got no shortage of options sharing documents and more with friends, family, and colleagues. These are your best bets.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 17:32:04 +0000
As an early domain name investor, Mike O’Connor had by 1994 snatched up several choice online destinations, including bar.com, cafes.com, grill.com, place.com, pub.com and television.com. Some he sold over the years, but for the past 26 years O’Connor refused to auction perhaps the most sensitive domain in his stable — corp.com. It is sensitive because years of testing shows whoever wields it would have access to an unending stream of passwords, email and other proprietary data belonging to hundreds of thousands of systems at major companies around the globe.
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Credit to Author: Brian Barrett| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 14:00:00 +0000
Google photo sharing, Wacom tracking, and more of the week’s top security news.
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Credit to Author: Will Knight| Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2020 12:00:00 +0000
Machine-learning programs are analyzing websites, news reports, and social media posts for signs of symptoms, such as fever or breathing problems.
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