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Israel-based open source security and license compliance management company, WhiteSource, today announced its acquisition of Renovate, an open-source project for dependency updates. Renovate’s offerings will now be available for free under its ne… Continue reading Renovate joins WhiteSource to help developers spend less time on manually resolving dependency updates
A report released by antivirus company Emisoft on October 1 sheds light on the increase in ransomware attacks on government and municipal entities. Per the report, in the first nine months of 2019, at least 621 government entities, healthcare service p… Continue reading “621 U.S. government, schools, and healthcare entities are impacted by ransomware attacks since January’19”, highlights Emisoft report
An unnamed iOS researcher that goes by the Twitter handle @axi0mX has released a new iOS exploit, checkm8 that affects all iOS devices running on A5 to A11 chipsets. This exploit explores vulnerabilities in Apple’s bootroom (secure boot ROM) whic… Continue reading New iPhone exploit checkm8 is unpatchable and can possibly lead to permanent jailbreak on iPhones
Researchers from Skylight Cyber, an Australian cybersecurity enterprise, have tricked Blackberry Cylance’s AI-based antivirus product. They identified a peculiar bias of the antivirus product towards a specific game engine and bypassed it to tric… Continue reading A universal bypass tricks Cylance AI antivirus into accepting all top 10 Malware revealing a new attack surface for machine learning based security
Dark patterns are often used online to deceive users into taking actions they would otherwise not take under effective, informed consent. Dark patterns are generally used by shopping websites, social media platforms, mobile apps and services as a part … Continue reading Experts discuss Dark Patterns and deceptive UI designs: What are they? What do they do? How do we stop them?
At the ongoing Microsoft Build 2019 conference, Microsoft has announced a ton of new features and tool releases with a focus on innovation using AI and mixed reality with the intelligent cloud and the intelligent edge. In his opening keynote, Microsoft… Continue reading Microsoft Build 2019: Microsoft showcases new updates to MS 365 platfrom with focus on AI and developer productivity
DuckDuckGo, the browser known for its privacy protection policies, has proposed draft legislation which will require sites to respect the Do Not Track browser setting. Called, the “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019”, this legislation will mandate we… Continue reading DuckDuckGo proposes “Do-Not-Track Act of 2019” to require sites to respect DNT browser setting
Facebook announced updates to it’s “remove, reduce, and inform” strategy to better control “problematic” content and fake news across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. No new tools or updates have been announced for What… Continue reading Will Facebook enforce it’s updated “remove, reduce, and inform” policy to curb fake news and manage problematic content?
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has broken off its partnerships with Chinese telecoms equipment makers Huawei and ZTE, amidst them facing US federal investigations. MIT follows suite moves by Stanford University, University of California̵… Continue reading Elite US universities including MIT and Stanford break off partnerships with Huawei and ZTE amidst investigations in the US
Yesterday, Kali Linux’s first release for 2019 was announced. Kali Linux 2019.1 comes with a variety of changes and new features including, support for Metasploit version 5.0, kernel up to version 4.19.13, ARM updates and numerous bug fixes. User… Continue reading Kali Linux 2019.1 released with support for Metasploit 5.0