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Meltdown and Spectre: Slowing You Down

Explaining Meltdown and Spectre Have you noticed your computer running slower than usual over the past two months, particularly after Windows updates? A big reason for that performance loss are the patches intended to guard against two separate but related hardware security vulnerabilities. Known as "Meltdown" and "Spectre," they were found in June 2017 and…

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What You Need To Know About FREAK

A new SSL/TLS vulnerability named “FREAK” was identified by several security researchers, a decade-old encryption flaw that leaves device users vulnerable to having their electronic communications intercepted. It’s a threat because FREAK allows an attacker to get between a client and server and view what is intended to be a secure and private communication. The vulnerability is…

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Vulnerabilities Found in Google Glass

Lookout has started security testing the Google Glass product. They have discovered a vulnerability with QR codes. They have submitted this vulnerability to Google and Google has mitigated it. This has opened some peoples eyes to more vulnerabilities that it may have. This particular exploit would be able to use either a printed QR code or a blue tooth device…

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New IE Exploit Blocked

Internet Explorer is once again a target of hackers, and probably always will be since its required for Windows updates to work properly. Microsoft just released a “quick fix” for vulnerability in the older versions of its browser (included with Windows XP and older computers most new computers should be on IE 9 or IE…

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