Credit to Author: Yaroslava Ryabova| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 16:26:49 +0000
Many people assume that an HTTPS connection means that the site is secure. In fact, HTTPS is increasingly being used by malicious sites, especially phishing ones.
Read moreCredit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 14:00:14 +0000
In this week’s edition Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Dave and Jeff look at hackable heating, using Twitter to predict traffic jams and how to stop the spread of fake news.
Read moreCredit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2017 15:18:41 +0000
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| This post explains the pros and cons of using user agents when browsing the world wide web. What does it reveal and why? Categories: Tags: browserchromecrawleremail clientsmozillaPieter Arntzuser agentwebsite |
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2017 16:17:05 +0000
Adobe last week detailed plans to retire its Flash Player software, a cross-platform browser plugin so powerful and so packed with security holes that it has become the favorite target of malware developers. To help eradicate this ubiquitous liability, Adobe is enlisting the help of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Mozilla. But don’t break out the bubbly just yet: Adobe says Flash won’t be put down officially until 2020.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:32:47 +0000
Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate today introduced a bill that would set baseline security standards for the government’s purchase and use of a broad range of Internet-connected devices, including computers, routers and security cameras. The legislation, which also seeks to remedy some widely-perceived shortcomings in existing cybercrime law, was developed in direct response to a series of massive cyber attacks in 2016 that were fueled for the most part by poorly-secured “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices.
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