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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from Bruce Schneier.
Why We Can’t Give the Cops Encryption Back Doors
Bruce Schneier explains once again why encryption back doors for cops means back doors for crooks too. “The Crypto Wars have been waging off-and-on for a quarter-century. On one side is law enforcement, which wants to be able to break encryption, to access devices and communications of ...
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US-CERT and CISA recently released a warning about a new tunneling malware application that the North Korean cyber operations group is using to move information from one computer to another, in order to exfiltrate that data. You can read about it at Malware Analysis Report (AR19-129A) MAR-10135536-21 – North Korean Tunneling Tool: ELECTRICFISH
Continue Reading →“This report provides analysis of one malicious 32-bit Windows executable file. The malware implements a custom protocol that allows traffic to be tunneled between ...
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Have you recently migrated to Microsoft Office 365 for your company email services? US-CERT and CISA recently released Analysis Report (AR19-133A) Microsoft Office 365 Security Observations that described several security flaws or weaknesses inherent in the default deployment of O365.
Here are the findings of that report. The good news is that these are shortcomings with the default, out-of-box experience. These issues can be corrected through configuration. ...
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Last week we took a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast. This article concludes the series.
VPN and Torrenting
Torrents are just the files that contain the information related to other files and folders that are distributed across the computers. For example, if you want to download a movie using torrent, then ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Update Your TOR Browser
Update your Firefox to version 66.0.4 and your TOR browser to version 8.0.9 to fix the problem with intermediate certificate verification.
FTC Releases Article on Keeping Children Safe Online
Original release date: April 26, 2019
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released an article with tips for parents to keep ...
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This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
VPN Protocols
So far, we’ve learned that the VPNs route your requested data through their servers to keep you anonymous.
But, as it happens with many things in the tech world, there’s not one but many different methods to ...
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This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
Different Uses of a VPN
Although you can do many things with a VPN (from buying cheap flight tickets to improving ping during online gaming), below are some of the primary uses.
Bypassing Regional ...
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This week we are taking a deeper look at VPN services courtesy of a guest post from The Gadget Enthusiast.
Unless you’re living under a rock for the past 10 years or so, you’ll know that VPN stands for the “virtual private network.”
It is a service that lets you access any website over the web, from anywhere, securely by ...
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