Sergiu Gatlan
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Sergiu is a news reporter who has covered the latest cybersecurity and technology developments for over a decade. Email or Twitter DMs for tips.
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New Ursnif Malware Campaign Uses Fileless Infection to Avoid Detection
A new malware campaign distributing the Ursnif banking Trojan using PowerShell to achieve fileless persistence to hide from anti-malware solutions was detected by Cisco's Advanced Malware Protection Exploit Prevention engine
- January 24, 2019
- 04:42 PM
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Microsoft Adds OneDrive Cloud File Sharing to Skype
Microsoft's Skype communication software now comes with support for seamless file sharing of files stored on the OneDrive cloud platform via a dedicated extension which provides faster and simpler file distribution and team collaboration.
- January 24, 2019
- 02:00 PM
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GDPR Compliance Lowers Data Breach Frequency and Impact Says Report
Companies that follow the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) experience extra benefits such as lower frequency and effect of data breaches, as well as fewer records being impacted in the attacks, shorter downtimes and lower overall costs
- January 24, 2019
- 08:00 AM
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Facebook Will Preemptively Close Pages of Owners Who Previously Broke Rules
Facebook announced improvements to their Page content quality features to make sure that content shared on its platform found to break its Community Standards does not escape the counter-measures put in place to prevent distribution.
- January 23, 2019
- 03:13 PM
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Researchers Create Algorithm to Protect Kids from Disturbing YouTube Videos
A team of researchers has developed a high accuracy deep learning-based classifier designed to detect YouTube videos with disturbing content for kids. This was done after finding that the current recommendation algorithm used by the platform to suggest related content is quite lacking.
- January 23, 2019
- 01:40 PM
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Wine 4.0 Available with Vulkan, Direct3D 12, Game Controller Support
The Wine 4.0 release adds a number of major new features such as support for the cross-platform Vulkan and the Windows Direct3D 12 3D graphics APIs, as well as for Android High-DPI and game controllers.
- January 23, 2019
- 10:53 AM
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Microsoft Releases KB4476976 Cumulative Update With Quality Improvements
Microsoft rolled out the KB4476976 cumulative update for Windows 10 Version 1809 and Windows Server 2019 which comes with multiple quality improvements designed to address a number of issues affecting the previous OS build.
- January 22, 2019
- 05:54 PM
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Arizona Lawmaker Wants to Tax Porn to Fund Border Security
Arizona Representative Gail Griffin proposed the House Bill 2444 which requires a $20 porn tax to access adult content using an Internet-connected device, with the collected money to be used for funding border security and dream centers.
- January 22, 2019
- 04:28 PM
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Outdated Software Exposes PC Users to Security Risks Says Report
Based on a sample size of 163 million computers, 55% of all programs installed on personal computers running Windows are outdated according to an Avast report, exposing their users to security risks because of unpatched vulnerabilities.
- January 22, 2019
- 02:24 PM
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Microsoft Announces New Windows 10 Devices, Personalized Learning Tools
Ahead of BETT UK 2019, Microsoft announced seven new education-focused Windows 10 devices, multiple updates to Teams that make it easier to personalize to better match each student's learning experience, as well as the addition of mixed reality curriculum via a partnership with VictoryVR
- January 22, 2019
- 12:00 PM
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Remote Code Execution Bug Patched in APT Linux Package Manager
A remote code execution bug was discovered by security contractor Max Justicz in the APT high level package manager used by Debian, Ubuntu, and other related Linux distributions. The bug has been fixed today in the latest versions of APT.
- January 22, 2019
- 11:48 AM
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Apple Pay Rolls Out to Target, Taco Bell and Other Top US Retailers
Apple announced the rollout of its Apple Pay mobile contactless payment system to the Target, Taco Bell, Hy-Vee, and Jack in the Box US retailers, now covering 74 of the top 100 US merchants and approximately 65 percent of all retail locations across the country
- January 22, 2019
- 09:35 AM
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Ransomware Attacks May Soon Require Disclosure in North Carolina
Attorney General Josh Stein and Rep. Jason Saine proposed legislation designed to strengthen the state's identity theft protection legislation, targeting prevention and consumer protection boost in the face of breaches.
- January 21, 2019
- 05:24 PM
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Malware, User Privacy Failures Found in Top Free VPN Android Apps
One in five apps from the top 150 free VPN Android apps in Google's Play Store was flagged as a potential source of malware, while a quarter of them come with user privacy breaking bugs such as DNS leaks which expose user DNS queries to their ISPs
- January 21, 2019
- 01:40 PM
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Google Fined €50 Million by French Watchdog for Lack of Transparency
Google was hit with a €50 (56,8) million financial penalty in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by the French Commission Nationale de l'informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) for violating transparency and information obligations and for not obtaining user consent for processing data for ads personalization
- January 21, 2019
- 10:58 AM
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