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Monthly Archives: May 2018
IBM bans USB drives – but will it work?
Can you blindly ban all USB drives, or will it lead to “shadow IT” where staff use them anyway? Sophos CISO Ross McKerchar has his say…
Firefox support for WebAuthn shows passwords the door
Passwords aren’t dead, yet.
Apple boots out apps that abuse location data collection
GDPR is coming and Apple’s spring cleaning the App Store
iOS 11.4 to come with 7-day USB shutout
After 7 days if there’s no passcode, then there’s no access.
The WhatsApp text bomb – no, it won’t destroy your phone!
“Text bomb, text bomb, WhatsApp text bomb, you can crash my application when I want to get things done.”
Watch out: photo editor apps hiding malware on Google Play
Innocent-looking apps with ad clicker malware have bypassed Google’s safeguards
Windows-crashing bug not patch-worthy, says Microsoft
When is a bug not a bug? That’s the question raised by researcher Marius Tivadar’s latest Windows-crashing proof of concept.
Grade hacking may cost high school its valedictorian
The grade tampering came to light while drawing up a list of top students. Now it’s unclear which students legitimately belong on that list.
Patch now! Microsoft and Adobe release critical security updates
…And the Microsoft vulnerabilities include 0-days. Get the patches now!