ThreatList: Apple Adware, Phishing, APT Attacks Threaten macOS Users
A gentle reminder. If you get a popup that asks you to ‘update Flash’ or ‘Install this video viewer’ or other such nonsense, ignore it…: While macOS is often touted […]
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Facebook Drops Default Facial Recognition Tag Suggestions
Perhaps FB is beginning to understand the public’s suspicion of facial recognition?… […] Facebook is giving users more control over a facial recognition feature used by the company to help […]
Google Launches Open-Source Browser Extension for Ad Transparency
If we are living in a world where the ‘free’ stuff is paid for by advertising, then it’s best to be explicit about it…: […] While there has been consumer pushback when […]
British Airways E-Ticketing Flaw Exposes Passenger Flight, Personal Data
BA have not had a good time recently with IT. Here’s one more problem to deal with …: […] Researchers on Tuesday said that check-in links being sent by British […]
DEF CON 2019: Picture Perfect Hack of a Canon EOS 80D DSLR
How many people take notice of security notices for their camera? I can see the risk to professional photographers, but it’s currently more of an inconvenience to the amateur (until […]
Rare Steganography Hack Can Compromise Fully Patched Websites
Attackers are hiding PHP scripts in EXIF headers of JPEG images to hack websites, just by uploading an image. Read the original article here
Threatlist: 68% of Overwhelmed IT Managers Can’t Keep Up with Cyberattacks
Mid-sized companies are struggling to keep up. This represents an opportunity for the managed security providers, but they are failing to persuade potential clients to outsource…: IT managers feel overwhelmed […]
Goodbye Passwords: Hello Identity Management
The death of passwords has been announced many times. When my mum stops using them, I’ll be convinced that we’ve finally moved on to something better…: Keeping track of user […]
Intel Fixes Critical, High-Severity Flaws Across Several Products
Some of these updates involve BIOS so will require careful planning if you’re going to avoid taking your data centre offline. I’ve had notifications from my hosting providers of planned […]
Apple Patches Intel Side-Channel Bugs; Updates iOS, macOS and More
Updating my Mac…now…: Apple has rolled out 173 patches across in various products across its hardware portfolio, including for dangerous bugs in macOS for laptops and desktops, iPhone, Apple TV […]