A new cybersecurity alliance of 14 leading companies launched today with a pledge to bring interoperability and data-sharing across cybersecurity products The Open Cybersecurity Alliance consortium, founded under the OASIS open standards and open source group, includes a raft of companies: IBM Corp., McAfee LLC, Advanced Cyber Security Corp., Corsa Techology Inc., CyberArk Software Ltd., […]
A fresh Android update has arrived on Pixel phones in the form of the October Android security update. This is the first regular monthly patch since the Pixel, Pixel 2, Pixel 3, and Pixel 3a picked up stable Android 10 at the beginning of September, so we aren’t expecting anything major. With that said, since
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When Apple announced iOS 13 earlier this year, there was one HomeKit feature that caught the eye more than most. Secure Video is going to make all of those security cameras dotted around your home more… secure. Video will be routed via Apple and iCloud, keeping it safe and sound. Things have been quiet since
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Microsoft President Brad Smith speaks at Town Hall in Seattle on Sept. 20 about his new book, Tools and Weapons. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota) Brad Smith makes one hell of a convincing argument. How else can you explain the following from Bill Gates’ foreword to his book, “Tools & Weapons: The Promise and the
Ransomware is a pervasive problem, and for victims it can be difficult to know whether paying up will help them to regain access to their maliciously encrypted files. So when ransomware decryption keys are released free of charge, it’s always good news — and this is exactly what has happened for HildaCrypt. The developer of
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A month after revealing a set of previously unknown “zero-day” vulnerabilities in iOS, Google LLC has exposed a zero-day flaw affecting its own Android operating system. The search giant published a technical description of the bug late Thursday. Project Zero, the Google security team behind the report, usually waits 90 days before publicizing a software vulnerability
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In most cases, two plus two equals four. It’s simple math. The same is true of encryption. Devices and services are either protected by strong encryption or they’re not. There is no in-between. In spite of that, the UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel, joined U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Australian Home Affairs Minister Peter
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Who doesn’t love a good spy thriller? From James Bond to Jason Bourne, the espionage fiction genre has been a favorite of readers and movie-goers since the 1800s. It’s all fun and games until you find yourself in the middle of your own private spy story as the person (or company) that’s the victim of
As America hurtles toward another presidential election, the threat of Russian hacking, meddling, and general deleterious behavior has occupied the minds of US government officials and average voters alike. But on Friday, Microsoft sounded an alarm that serves as a timely reminder that Russia doesn’t have a monopoly on election hacking. In an aggressive new
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