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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month –
Own It. Secure It. Protect It.
The line between our online and offline lives is indistinguishable. In these tech-fueled times, our homes, societal well-being, economic prosperity and nation’s security are impacted by the internet.
Under the overarching theme of ‘Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT.’, the 16th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month ...
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Late in August and early in September, I was back in the classroom again teaching a great bunch of beginning IT technicians the finer points of networking so they can pass the CompTIA Network+ certification exam. They asked me for a list of the tools that I use on the job. Once I had put the list together for them, it looked like ...
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A new botnet known as “Ares” is targeting misconfigured set top boxes that run the light-weight Android OS. Two older botnets, Fbot and Trinity, are also targeting this misconfiguration. A module, the Android Debug Bridge (ADB), is the specific vulnerability, and it should not be available at all. The debug bridge is used by software developers during code writing to check for ...
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If you visited certain websites with your iPhone (or Android or Windows device**) over the last two years, it is possible that your iPhone downloaded and installed malware that allowed attackers to intercept and record everything you did and everywhere you went with your iPhone. This includes real-time location information, all your emails and messaging (including encrypted versions ...
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