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What do to protect your identity online? What's your threat model? How did you come up with your threat model? What are your primary concerns with your information being online and the online services and apps you use? How do you protect yourself online? Do you use Gmail or Protonmail? Do you...

We have a few laptops in our office that we are looking at putting some encryption on as they often leave the office. Bitlocker seems the best solution with it already on Windows 10 and free. I just wonder is Bitlocker worth putting onto the desktop PCs that are in the office and don't ever...

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Hi I just ran across this search engine that says it doesn't track you or distribute your information. What I like it that it doesn't have the paid entries at the top of the list and a lot less advertising. It also seems to be faster then Google or the other search engines I've been using but...

just wanting to run this past you guys … this post is straight from our good friends at bleepingcomputer.com … and the issue is in regards to the inherent vulnerabilities with current ssd-drives. i don't have much to say, since i do not own an ssd-drive …...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published. Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted webpage using Internet...

Severity Rating: Critical Revision Note: V1.0 (December 13, 2016): Bulletin published Summary: This security update resolves vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office. The most severe of the vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted Microsoft Office file...

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I need to enforce a permanent EFS policy on a given folder. I already know how to turn on the EFS setting on a folder, so that all files copied into it or created in it are automatically encrypted by EFS. Now, the problem is that Windows allows the user to manually disable the EFS on a file...

By way of introduction, I am Chris Betz, the leader of the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). I’m stepping in to fill the shoes of Mike Reavey, who has moved on to become the General Manager of Secure Operations, still within Trustworthy Computing. Since joining the MSRC, I’ve spent...

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After doing a copy and paste, we have, on 3 occasions so far, found the copied data in an entirely different file. Twice data from a copy appeared in an excel spreadsheet and once a picture copied in facebook appeared in an email. The excel problem is very worrysome as it is our family budget...

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IDG News Service - Web mail users at Yahoo and Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted attacks that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to security software vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro described two similar attacks against Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail...

In computer science, session hijacking is the exploitation of a valid computer session (commonly known as a "session key") used to gain unauthorized access to information or services in a computer system. For example, when a user logs in to a web site, the user's PC is tagged with a session...

Web applications increasingly integrate third-party services. The integration introduces new security challenges due to the complexity for an application to coordinate its internal states with those of the component services and the web client across the Internet. In this paper, we study the...