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Guidewire Software announced a new Remote Desktop Protocol, Exposure Signal, for its Guidewire Cyence for Cyber product. Cyberattacks against Internet-exposed RDP servers are surging, and Exposure Signal is designed to detect on-demand whether a company's RDP has been exposed to the internet and a potential cyberattack.
As the economic fallout of the COVID-19 crisis continues to unfold, a research from Next Caller, reveals the pervasive impact that COVID-related fraud has had on Americans, as well as emerging trends that threaten the security of contact centers, as we head towards what may be another wave of call activity. Rising reports of fraud activity signal not only that fraudsters are eager to replicate their initial success, but that some of those early schemes may just be getting started.
Content delivery network provider Fastly announced on Thursday that it has agreed to acquire web application security firm Signal Sciences for approximately $775 million in cash and stock. Founded in 2014, California-based Signal Sciences provides web application firewall and runtime application self-protection technologies designed to protect applications, APIs and microservices.
Chinese state security agencies will also operate in Hong Kong for the first time, and the local police force will be able to intercept communications and spy on suspects, with the approval of Hong Kong's chief executive. The legislation will apply not just within inside Hong Kong but overseas too, meaning foreign nationals who speak against Beijing could be prosecuted upon entering Hong Kong or mainland China.
Privacy-focused communications application Signal this week announced a new feature meant to enhance user privacy amid social turmoil in the United States: a blur tool. Available in the image editor, the functionality is meant to help protect the privacy of the people in the photos shared over Signal.
Amid nationwide protests over the death of George Floyd, secure comms biz Signal has deployed a blur tool in its messaging and calling app to allow users to obscure faces in app-captured snapshots. Since not everyone always does so, the latest versions of Signal for Android and iOS include a blur feature in the image editor menu that can be used to degrade image details.
We've never bothered with Signal for the reason that signing up means handing over your phone number. As we mentioned you don't need to use a PIN to secure your Signal account - you can just use your phone number alone, as before, or choose a proper pass-phrase that's as long as you like.
Encrypted messaging service Signal has announced the introduction of a new feature that allows users to recover their data if they switch to a new device. The new feature, Signal PINs, is based on Secure Value Recovery, which the company introduced in December, and is meant to help users import data such as profile, settings, and blocked users when switching to a new device.
The non profit organization has also announced on Tuesday a new mechanism - Signal PINs - that will, eventually, allow users not to use their phone number as their user ID. About the vulnerability. While the DNS server information cannot tell the caller where exactly the callee is located as it offers just coarse location data, according to Wells, "In instances such as Google Public DNS and others, this attack can narrow the location down to the Signal user's city due to usage of EDNS Client Subnet."
People can generally hear audio frequencies ranging from 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz, though individual hearing ranges vary. Samuel Weiler, a web security engineer with MIT CSAIL and a member of the W3C's Privacy Interest Group, recently pushed to re-open a discussion about limiting the Web Audio API so that it cannot be used to generate or listen for ultrasonic signals without permission.