Daily Archives: August 23, 2019

GitHub upgrades two-factor authentication with WebAuthn support

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GitHub has announced support for the Web Authentication (WebAuthn) security standard.

GitHub already supports two-factor authentication (2FA) via SMS texts (the least secure option, given that phone numbers can be hijacked and SMS messages intercepted), one-time password authentication apps, or […]

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Steam cleaned of zero-day security holes after Valve turned off by bug bounty snub outrage

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Games giant Valve is attempting to make nice with the infosec bod who disclosed zero-day exploits for vulnerabilities in Steam after the corporation refused to pay out bug bounties for the flaws.

On Thursday, Valve said it would patch both […]

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As browser rivals block third-party tracking, Google pitches ‘Privacy Sandbox’ peace plan

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On Thursday, Google reminded everyone who might have forgotten that “privacy is paramount to us” and announced an initiative called “Privacy Sandbox” that proposes paving over a few privacy pitfalls without suffocating its ad business.

It takes a certain chutzpah […]

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Contacts-slurping Android malware sneaked onto Google Play store – twice

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Android spyware – open-source spyware, no less – has found its way onto the Google Play store, according to researchers from ESET.

The nefarious software masqueraded as a fully functional internet radio app targeted at the Balouch people of Pakistan, […]

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Shhh! Microsoft, Intel, Google and more sign up to the Confidential Computing Consortium

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The Linux Foundation has signed up the likes of Microsoft and Google for its Confidential Computing Consortium, a group with the laudable goal of securing sensitive data.

The group – which also includes Alibaba, Arm, Baidu, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, Swisscom […]

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