Sergiu Gatlan
Author Bio
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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Windows Security Patch Breaks PowerShell Remoting
Windows PowerShell and PowerShell Core 6 (PSCore6) WinRM based remoting have been broken for a specific PowerShell remoting scenario by Microsoft's CVE-2019-0543 security patch released on January 8
- January 15, 2019
- 08:13 AM
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Massachusetts Amends Law Protecting Consumers From Security Breaches
Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker signed a new law on January 10 that amends the state's data breach law removing the fees imposed by credit reporting agencies for security disclosures and freezes of consumer credit reports
- January 14, 2019
- 04:20 PM
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Microsoft Awarded Five-Year $1.76 Billion IDIQ Contract by DoD
Microsoft was awarded a $1,760,000,000 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract under the DoD Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) to provide the Department of Defense with Microsoft Enterprise Services in accordance with the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement, Section 208.74.
- January 14, 2019
- 02:00 PM
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Hundreds of Cybersecurity Risks Still Affecting the Pentagon
Although the vast majority of open cybersecurity issues are from 2018, there are a handful of cybersecurity gaps left open for about a decade, with two recommendations unaddressed since 2008
- January 14, 2019
- 01:30 PM
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Del Rio City Hall Forced to Use Paper After Ransomware Attack
The City Hall of Del Rio, Texas was hit by a ransomware attack on the morning of January 10, which led to dozens of computers on the network being turned off and disconnected from the Internet to contain and analyze the malware
- January 11, 2019
- 03:55 PM
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Apple's Latest iPhone Models Get Price Cuts of Up to 20% in China
Apple's new iPhone models had their prices slashed by up to 20% in China most likely due to retailers deciding to move their iPhone stock which Chinese customers have apparently replaced with local smartphone brands
- January 11, 2019
- 10:41 AM
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US Carriers Promise Again to Stop Selling Customer Location Data
Selling customers' location data has always been a lucrative practice for carriers, seeing that every year since at least 2013 they've been caught spreading it around to any company willing to pay. Maybe something will change in 2019.
- January 11, 2019
- 08:17 AM
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Microsoft Releases Cumulative Update KB4476976 To Fix Action Center Issues
At the moment this update is available for Windows Insiders in the Release Preview ring only and it appears as the 2019-01 Cumulative Update for Windows 10 Version 1809 in Windows Update
- January 11, 2019
- 06:50 AM
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Microsoft 365 Business Gets Self Service Password Reset Writeback
Microsoft 365 Business users can now change their passwords in the cloud using the SSPR feature and have it written back to on-premises directories in real time
- January 10, 2019
- 03:34 PM
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U.S. Government Shutdown Leaves Its Sites with Expired TLS Certificates
The websites of the U.S. Department of Justice, NASA, and the Court of Appeals are some of the ones hit by the government's failure to extend around 80 TLS certificates used on .gov domains
- January 10, 2019
- 02:30 PM
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Criminals Grabbed at Least 4.3 Percent of All Monero Coins on the Market
Crooks earned roughly 57 million USD in a 4 year. period s by taking advantage of other people's hardware to mine for Monero and by using large botnets as a tool towards quick illegal monetary gains of more than $1 million per month
- January 10, 2019
- 12:40 PM
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Microsoft Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Exchange Server
The security update applies to Microsoft Exchange Server 2019, 2016, and 2013
- January 10, 2019
- 03:00 AM
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Google Adds DNS-over-TLS Support to Its Public DNS Service
Google's Public DNS service now comes with support for the DNS-over-TLS security protocol which wraps DNS queries and answers using the Transport Layer Security protocol
- January 09, 2019
- 05:13 PM
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AMD Unveils 7nm Radeon VII GPU as Response to NVIDIA's RTX 2080
The AMD Radeon VII graphics chip is built using the enhanced second-generation Vega architecture and a 7nm process technology, and will come with DirectX 12 and Vulkan support, as well as a $699 price tag
- January 09, 2019
- 04:20 PM
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Google Rolls Out Activity Cards to Help You Find Past Searches
Google is currently rolling out an activity cards feature teased in a September blog post and allowing users to see search results found in the past while searching for similar terms. Released for mobile web and Google app users.
- January 09, 2019
- 02:19 PM
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