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Shortly after the discovery of the “root” bug plaguing Macs worldwide, Apple is faced with another embarrassing flaw in the newest version of its macOS. And it’s yet another password-centric vulnerability. A recent post on Open Radar … Continue reading How to protect your Mac from the ‘App Store password’ bug
Just months before the EU General Data Protection Regulation takes effect globally, more than half of US-based employees in various industries have never heard of the upcoming regulation, according to a survey by adaptive training experts at MediaPro.
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The Wi-Fi Alliance, a consortium that certifies Wi-Fi products, has announced the next-generation network security protocol for Wi-Fi communication, dubbed Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3 for short). Although reported as vulnerable, the WPA2 protocol us… Continue reading WPA3 will protect weak passwords, simplify Wi-Fi configuration
Cryptocurrency mining service Coinhive is again in the news for misuse by a customer, this time involving handset maker Blackberry. Apparently, someone hacked into the company’s global operations website and used it to steal visitors’ compu… Continue reading Someone hacked Blackberry to steal computing power for mining cryptocurrency
Western Digital network attached storage (NAS) devices have been found vulnerable to remote exploitation that would allow bad actors to download your private files at will. Security researcher James Bercegay reveals in an advisory that an array of R… Continue reading Researcher finds hardcoded backdoor in Western Digital storage devices
Security researchers at Google this week made public two vulnerabilities in almost every modern processor shipped since 1995 that could allow attackers to steal passwords, encryption keys and other sensitive information.
The post Meltdown and Spec… Continue reading Meltdown and Spectre: decades-old CPU design flaws put businesses at risk
In just a few years, we can all safely forget those cumbersome passwords we use to secure and unlock our devices. And we will be able to thank on-device artificial intelligence (AI) for easing the strain on our memory, according to a forecast by Gartne… Continue reading Behavioral biometrics will replace passwords by 2022 – Gartner
Slapping a full-size QUERTY keyboard on an automated teller machine is not the best way to keep the ATM safe from prying hands, as one Sberbank customer found out this holiday season. In early December, an employee of Russian website Habrahabr went to … Continue reading Russian ATM hacked with 5 keystrokes – Video
In an entirely new twist on the security of hard disk drives (HDDs), a team of researchers from Princeton and Purdue University have released a paper demonstrating how acoustic signals at specific frequencies can compromise devices that rely on HDD tec… Continue reading Researchers use sound to compromise hard drives in new DOS proof-of-concept
Investment firm Goldman Sachs Group is about to dip a toe into the Bitcoin market, according to people familiar with the bank’s strategy. Bitcoin is heavily associated with cybercrime – in particular ransomware. Goldman Sachs is setting up … Continue reading Wall Street warming up to Bitcoin as Goldman Sachs sets up trading desk