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Enhancing Maritime Security: Lessons from the Key Bridge Incident

SecureWorld News

At first glance, it appears to be a tragic accident stemming from a loss of power to the ship's systems. So, we are more and more dependent on the security and resilience of the systems running critical infrastructure—maritime in this case. RELATED: White House Sets New Strategy for Securing U.S.

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Facebook 'prepares' app developers for iOS 14 advertising catastrophe

TechSpot

One of the new security features coming to the mobile operating system is better personal information transparency. In June, Apple showcased iOS 14 at its Worldwide Developers Conference. Not only will developers have to show users how they collect, use, and share their information, but apps will have to ask.

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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. Again, a raid as harmful as that commences with what appears to be garden-variety deceptive advertising trickery.

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Protecting Against the Increasing Malvertising Threat

CTOvision

This article increases awareness for organizations and individuals seeking to enhance their digital security posture against malvertising (“malicious advertising”). Ad blockers also provide a layer of security; however, their potential impact to the traditional digital media marketing infrastructure is unknown at this time.

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Apple’s new iPhone privacy changes, explained

Venture Beast

Reuters) — Apple on Monday will begin rolling out an update of its iOS operating system with new privacy controls designed to limit digital advertisers from tracking iPhone users. Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year.

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How to configure your Chromebook for ultimate security

Network World

A Chromebook is already an ultra-secure computer straight out of the box. Since it doesn’t run a traditional operating system and takes advantage of various Google-powered security measures, Chrome OS is well-guarded against all the miscreants lurking out there on the Web.

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Remote code execution is possible by exploiting flaws in Vxworks

Network World

Eleven zero-day vulnerabilities in WindRiver’s VxWorks, a real-time operating system in use across an advertised 2 billion connected devices have been discovered by network security vendor Armis. Getting grounded in IoT networking and security. The 6 ways to make money in IoT. What is digital twin technology?

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