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• Ransomware detections up 200 percent with businesses the main target

  25-4-2019 Tech Betanews 16

  The latest quarterly threat research from Malwarebytes for Q1 2019 reveals a 200 percent jump in ransomware and continued increase in business...

• Microsoft drops password expiration policies from Windows 10 1903 security baseline

  25-4-2019 Tech Betanews 9

  In new draft security baseline documentation, Microsoft has scrapped the policy that requires users to change their passwords on a regular basis....

• IoT devices put healthcare networks at risk

  24-4-2019 Tech Betanews 24

  The proliferation of healthcare Internet-of-things devices, along with unpartitioned networks, insufficient access controls and the reliance on...

• Employees put sensitive data at risk in workplace chat sessions

  23-4-2019 Tech Betanews 14

  Around a quarter of employees share confidential information via chat sessions, and a similar number talk badly about their boss, while 78 percent...

• Is Huawei funded by Chinese state security? The CIA seems to think so

  22-4-2019 Tech Betanews 12

  Huawei has had a rough time of things when it comes to international relations, with the US and others implementing various bans on the use of the...

• Millions of people still have pathetically weak, easily hacked passwords

  21-4-2019 Tech Betanews 13

  That people are lazy is not news. Ditto the fact that people like to make things as easy for themselves as possible. These two facts do not work...

• Facebook: er, actually it was millions of Instagram passwords we stored in plain text, not thousands

  19-4-2019 Tech Betanews 12

  With no fanfare whatsoever, Facebook has revealed that it stored the passwords for millions of Instagram accounts in plain text. The news came as...

• All endpoint security tools eventually fail

  18-4-2019 Tech Betanews 12

  The endpoint is on the front line of the network security battle, but a new study from Absolute reveals that endpoint security tools and agents...

• Micropatch now available for Internet Explorer security hole

  18-4-2019 Tech Betanews 20

  A few days ago, a security vulnerability in Internet Explorer came to light. A flaw in the handling of certain files can be exploited by hackers to...

• Privacy: Facebook 'unintentionally' scraped and uploaded 1.5 million users' email contacts

  18-4-2019 Tech Betanews 11

  It seems that barely a week passes without another Facebook scandal emerging, and this week is no different. The company has revealed that it...

• Tracking the continuing bad bot arms race

  17-4-2019 Tech Betanews 17

  In 2018 bad bots accounted for one in five website requests (20.4 percent of web traffic), while good bots decreased slightly to make up 17.5...

• Security, connectivity and data analysis are top IoT developer concerns

  17-4-2019 Tech Betanews 15

  A new survey of IoT developers reveals their top concerns are security (38 percent of respondents), connectivity (21 percent), and data collection...

• AMD brings more performance to embedded processors

  17-4-2019 Tech Betanews 13

  The rise of edge devices, customer service terminals, digital signage and so on has led to increased demand for embedded processing. Chip maker AMD...

• Huawei says US government is 'ignorant of technology'

  16-4-2019 Tech Betanews 13

  Having faced accusations of conducting espionage on behalf of the Chinese government, Huawei has lashed out at the US government, accusing...

• Understanding the Brazilian hacking community [Q&A]

  16-4-2019 Tech Betanews 17

  We tend to think of hacking communities as being concentrated in the Far East or the former Soviet bloc, but of course there hackers elsewhere that...