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Security News for the Week Ending March 4, 2022

Apple Scrambles to Try and Figure Out How to Stop Stalkers From Using AirTags Their newest idea is, when you initialize a new AirTag, it will tell you that Stalking may be illegal in your country. I really, really, doubt that will have any effect. They are also shortening the time window for notifying you […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 17, 2021

The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Log4j – List of Affected Vendors First, get used to hearing about this. It will be haunting us for months, at least. Jen Easterly, current head of DHS’s CISA and formerly at NSA and a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point says this may be […]

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Security News for the Week Ending September 3, 2021

Apple Offers Fixes For Broken iPhone 12s While not exactly a security issue, Apple is offering to fix defective iPhone 12s that were made between October 2020 and April 2021 and which have a defective receiver module component. That is mighty kind of them since every single one of them is still under warranty and […]

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How Many Images Are Required to Unlock Your iPhone?

Many people have moved to facial recognition to unlock their iPhone, mostly because it is easy. Researchers wanted to know how secure that is. For those people who use their face to authorize payments, the problem is, maybe, a bit more serious. Researchers at Tel Aviv University harnessed deep fakes and that magic word, AI, […]

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Security News for the Week Ending Aug 6, 2021

Cyber Insurance Company Coalition Says Claims Payment Down From Last Year Cyber insurer Coalition says that it’s clients’ average claims for losses for ransomware attacks was $184,000 for the first half of this year, down 45% from the second half of last year. This, they say, is because they are doing better at negotiating ransoms. […]

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