Microsoft is working on fixes for various search-related bugs in File Explorer that were introduced when Windows 10 1909 was released. With the release of Windows 10 version 1909, Microsoft integrated Windows Search directly into the File Explorer so that results are automatically shown as you perform a search. File ...
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Update Twitter Android App ASAP Before You Get Hacked
Twitter is rolling out an update for its Android app and a word to the wise — don’t put it off to a later date and install the Twitter app update as soon as possible. That is because Twitter has patched a significant vulnerability that allowed bad actors to see ...
Read More »Protecting programmatic access to user data with Binary Authorization for Borg
Binary Authorization for Borg, or BAB, is an internal deploy-time enforcement check that reduces insider risk by ensuring that production software and configuration deployed at Google is properly reviewed and authorized, especially when that code has the ability to access user data. BAB ensures that code and configuration deployments meet ...
Read More »A Look Back at Some of Unit 42’s Greatest Contributions to Threat Intelligence Research
In 2015, Unit 42, the global threat intelligence division at Palo Alto Networks, discovered that more than 39 iOS apps were infected with xCodeGhost, the first compiler malware in OSX. By targeting the compilers used to create legitimate apps, xCodeGhost is able to use infected apps to collect information from ...
Read More »USN-4223-1: OpenJDK vulnerabilities | Ubuntu security notices
17 December 2019 openjdk-8, openjdk-lts vulnerabilities A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: Ubuntu 19.10 Ubuntu 19.04 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Summary Several security issues were fixed in OpenJDK. Software Description openjdk-lts – Open Source Java implementation openjdk-8 – Open Source Java implementation Details ...
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