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How Purism takes a lo-fi approach to secure laptops for shipment
2020-06-01 14:38

Are you concerned someone might intercept your newly-purchased mobile device during transit and do bad things with it? Purism is aware this happens and takes a lo-fi approach to the problem. Such is the case with Purism's lo-fi approach to protecting the privacy of laptops during shipment.

When your laptop is your workspace, the real office never closes
2020-04-13 05:30

With people working from home and connected to business applications running in the cloud, the notion of an office building representing the company network has vanished overnight. If that's the case, why would it matter whether that laptop is being connected to video conferencing in the company's conference room or a video conference being held from home? There is no more of a guarantee that the laptop in the company conference room is connected to the company's network than the one connected at home.

USB Cable Kill Switch for Laptops
2020-01-07 12:03

The idea is to connect the BusKill cable to your Linux laptop on one end, and to your belt, on the other end. When someone yanks your laptop from your lap or table, the USB cable disconnects from the laptop and triggers a udev script [1, 2, 3] that executes a series of preset operations.

Rowhammer rides again as FPGA attack, RSA again reportedly up for sale, anti-theft kit to nuke laptops, etc
2020-01-06 06:58

The team at Tencent Keen Security Lab has done it again: hacking Tesla's Model S, in which the security shop's parent company has a significant stake. One Dell of a start to 2020 for RSA. It seems security company RSA's days as a part of the Dell family of brands may be numbered.

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2019-12-23 10:36

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Shock! US border cops need 'reasonable suspicion' of a crime before searching your phone, laptop
2019-11-12 23:57

Massachusetts judge reminds America of that little thing called the Fourth Amendment The seizure and search of phones and laptops at the US border is unconstitutional, a judge said Tuesday in a...

Buying a new laptop? Here’s how to secure it
2019-10-04 14:35

Getting the basics right gives you a lot of protection. Here's how.

Prey’s new capability locks and alarms laptops, phones and tablets during non-use hours
2019-09-24 02:00

Prey, provider of the cross-platform, open source anti-theft software that protects more than eight million mobile devices, announced Scheduled Automations, a new capability available to...

Someone find a make-me-admin hole in your laptop crapware? Don't want fix the bug? Just move the EOL date – right, Lenovo?
2019-08-23 18:14

Uninstall Solution Centre or your security could be gone in 300 seconds Not only has a vulnerability been found in Lenovo Solution Centre (LSC), but the laptop maker fiddled with end-of-life dates...