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September 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Microsoft security update will be complete
Microsoft began an aggressive six-month campaign in March of this year to switch the digital signature on all operating system and product updates from using Secure Hash …
What can be done about the rising click interception threat?
Ad networks’ increasingly successful efforts to detect bot-based ad click fraud has forced attackers to focus more on intercepting and redirecting legitimate users’ …
New cross-industry consortium aims to accelerate confidential computing adoption
The Linux Foundation announced the intent to form the Confidential Computing Consortium, a community dedicated to defining and accelerating the adoption of confidential …
Cybersecurity challenges for smart cities: Key issues and top threats
Urban population is on the rise worldwide and smart city development projects are harnessing the power of the Internet of Things (IoT) to develop more intelligent, efficient, …
Nucleus Cyber becomes a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
Nucleus Cyber, the intelligent data-centric security company for the modern workplace, announced it has become a member of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association to …
Critical Bluetooth flaw opens millions of devices to eavesdropping attacks
A newly disclosed vulnerability (CVE-2019-9506) in the Bluetooth Core Specification can be exploited by attackers to intercept and manipulate Bluetooth communications/traffic …
August 2019 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft plugs critical wormable RDP holes
It’s that time of the month again: Microsoft, Adobe and Intel have pushed out fixes for a bucketload of security issues in their various software. Microsoft’s …
August 2019 Patch Tuesday forecast: Expect updates from Adobe, stay current on other updates
Microsoft released details on August 6 regarding another variant of the Spectre Variant 1 speculative execution side channel vulnerability (CVE-2019-1125). The vulnerability …
SWAPGS Attack: A new Spectre haunts machines with Intel CPUs
Bitdefender researchers have uncovered yet another viable speculative execution side-channel attack that can be leveraged against Intel CPUs and the computers running on them. …
JASK joins the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association
JASK, the provider of one of the industry’s first cloud-native SIEM platforms, announced it joined the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA), a group of security …
Microsoft sets up isolated environment for bug hunters to test attacks against Azure
Microsoft has some very good news for bug hunters: not only has the company doubled the top bounty reward for vulnerabilities discovered in its Azure cloud computing service, …
Microsoft is right, mandatory password changes are obsolete
Microsoft has recently come out and said that mandatory password changing is ancient and obsolete. This goes directly against everything we were trained to think for the last …
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