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Microsoft’s latest ‘Redstone 4’ test build, 17063, includes includes its promised Timeline feature, the start of Edge support for Progressive Web Apps, lots of UI tweaks, and several IT pro-focused goodies.
The company says over 745 percent of projects hosted on the platform use dependencies, and that opens them up to inherent vulnerabilities.
The company today announced that LinkedIn integration within Outlook.com is now going live, allowing email users to view insights, profile pictures, work history and more from within their inbox.
Discovered by Alex Birsan, the researcher describes the latter flaw as the “Holy Grail of Google bugs” as it would have allowed an attacker access to yet-to-be-fixed vulnerabilities in Google products.
After last week we had the KRACK and ROCA cryptographic attacks, this week has gotten off to a similarly “great” start with the publication of a new crypto attack known as DUHK (Don’t Use Hard-coded Keys).
More than 60% of app developers recommend a “freemium” model for monetizing a mobile app, according to a new survey.
A new ransomware called Anubi was discovered by Malwarebytes security researcher S!Ri that appends the .[anubi@cock.li].anubi extension to encrypted files. While not much is known about how this ransomware is distributed, as it is in the wild I thought I would provide a brief summary of the ransomware.
Mathy Vanhoef, a researcher from the University of Leuven (KU Leuven), has discovered a severe flaw in the Wi-Fi Protected Access II (WPA2) protocol that secures all modern protected Wi-Fi networks.
Google is ending its controversial First Click Free (FCF) policy that publishers loathed because it required them to allow Google search results access to news articles hidden behind a paywall.
Google has announced ARCore, bringing augmented reality (AR) functionality to Android smartphones.
