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OPSEC: Using a fake name for a dark web marketplace purchase

Have you ever wanted to order something online, perhaps from a dark web marketplace, but didn’t want to give your real name? Someone claiming to be an attorney addressed the subject during an OPSEC discussion on Reddit’s DarkNetMarkets.A computer science professor of mine once advised the class to never use your real name online. He wasn’t suggesting we go all out with fake names, but to continually tweak your "real" name such as changing the spelling, shortening it, using nicknames, adding A through Z as a middle initial, etc. That way you see who is tracking you and who is selling your information. If Joey Z Doe gets snail mail or email after registering to purchase something from an online marketplace, then you know that site is selling your information. If you get too wild with the naming convention, then the transaction cannot go through a traditional credit card payment, since it’s too far from a match.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

14 essential Windows 10 keyboard shortcuts

There are plenty of ways to navigate Windows 10, but sometimes using keyboard shortcuts is the most convenient and can save time and effort.You can click on the start button or tap it with your finger on a touchscreen to access the power controls or you can just hit the Windows button on the keyboard without lifting a hand.+More on Network World: 11 hidden tips and tweaks for Windows 10+Once shortcuts make it into your muscle memory they require no thought and can make your time at the computer more efficient. Here’s 10 you’ll want to know.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

53% off J5 Tactical V1-Pro Ultra Bright 3 Mode Flashlight – Deal Alert

Heavy duty, compact and tough as nails. Perhaps the last flashlight you'll ever need. That's how J5 Tactical describes their V1-Pro. A super bright 300 lumens LED produces an intense beam of light up to 600 feet with high, low and strobe modes. It can take a beating, is weather resistant, and works for hours on a single AA battery. With nearly 6,000 reviews on Amazon, it averages 4.5 out of 5 stars (read reviews). Its typical list price of $29.95 has been reduced by 53% to $13.95. See the discounted J5 Tactical V1-Pro flashlight now on Amazon.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Maker of web monitoring software can be sued, says court

The maker of so-called spyware program WebWatcher can be sued for violating state and federal wiretap laws, a U.S. appeals court has ruled, in a case that may have broader implications for online monitoring software and software as a service.The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit rejected WebWatcher vendor Awareness Technologies' motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the company. The appeals court overturned a lower court ruling granting the motion to dismiss.The appeals court, in a 2-1 decision Tuesday, rejected Awareness' claims that WebWatcher does not intercept communications in real time, in violation of the U.S. wiretap act, but instead allows users to review targets' communications. While plaintiff Javier Luis' lawsuit doesn't address real-time interception of communications, his allegations "give rise to a reasonable inference" of that happening, Judge Ronald Lee Gilman wrote.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How Lyft gets a lift from Amazon’s cloud

Back in 2012, two engineers built the first prototype of ride-hailing app Lyft over the course of three weeks. They hosted it on three virtual machines in Amazon Web Services’ cloud and on May 31 of that year the first-ever Lyft ride was processed.Today, Lyft provides nearly 14 million rides per month and the company continues to run its infrastructure operations from AWS’s cloud, according to CTO Chris Lambert. “The only difference now… We’re taking advantage of many more Amazon technologies,” said Lambert, at a recent AWS Summit in New York, describing the company’s timeline of using the cloud. (See video of Lambert's AWS Summit talk below.)To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Expect iPhone 7, not iPhone 7 Pro this time around

Apple watchers at Japan's Mac Otokara website affirm based on "reliable sources," that Apple indeed will call its upcoming smartphones the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, passing on a possible iPhone 7 Pro. There have been rumors that Apple would deliver three new phones in September, with the iPhone 7 Pro featuring a dual-lens camera. It appears now that Apple will stick with two new phones, including the dual-lens camera in the iPhone 7 Plus. MORE: Best iPhone 7 Design Concepts of 2016To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Traffic flows better with Digi IoT-based traffic management

What would you do to avoid getting stuck in traffic? Some commuters leave at dawn to beat rush-hour traffic. Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts. Literally. Congestion costs every U.S. household $1,700 annually, according to a recent study by The Economist. These costs result from the time wasted by drivers and the fuel burned by idling cars while stuck in traffic jams. IoT traffic management systems provide relief by remotely adjusting traffic lights to speed traffic flows.  Architecting the solution The traffic management solution design follows a proven IoT design model.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

More on Operationalizing Threat Intelligence

Coming out of Black Hat a few weeks ago, it’s pretty frightening what’s going on with cyber-threats.  Overall malware volume is down but the number of variants has gone up precipitously.  In fact, according to the Webroot threat report, about 97% of all malware variants are seen only one time.  In other words, they are designed to target and attack specific organizations.Yes, enterprise organizations are bolstering defenses with anti-malware gateways and next-generation endpoint security tools but they are also doubling down on threat intelligence.  According to ESG research, 27% of enterprise organizations plan to spend significantly more on their threat intelligence programs over the next 12 to 18 months while another 45% say they will spend somewhat more on their threat intelligence programs during this same timeframe (note: I am an ESG employee).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

More on operationalizing threat intelligence

Coming out of Black Hat a few weeks ago, it’s pretty frightening what’s going on with cyber threats. Overall malware volume is down, but the number of variants has gone up precipitously. In fact, according to the Webroot threat report, about 97 percent of all malware variants are seen only one time. In other words, they are designed to target and attack specific organizations.Yes, enterprise organizations are bolstering defenses with anti-malware gateways and next-generation endpoint security tools, but they are also doubling down on threat intelligence. According to ESG research, 27 percent of enterprise organizations plan to spend significantly more on their threat intelligence programs over the next 12 to 18 months, while another 45 percent say they will spend somewhat more on their threat intelligence programs during this same timeframe.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

iPhone 8: The concept design video Apple doesn’t want you to watch

With Apple expected to announce the iPhone 7 as soon as Sept. 7, the last thing the company needs is people pining for more than the company is going to deliver. But when an iPhone 8 design concept goes online, what's a fanboy or fangirl supposed to do?ConceptsiPhone has posted a video on YouTube that mashes together items from the universal iPhone wish list -- items not likely to be found in this year's new iPhones. Conventional wisdom is that Apple wants to make a big splash next year to mark the iPhone's 10th anniversary (I can only imagine how long that press event is going to be, with recent ones clocking in at around 2 hours).To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

With slick Omen PCs, HP makes a splash in high-end gaming

HP said it would return to the high-end gaming PC market with a bang, and it sure has, with fully loaded Omen PCs.The funky looking Omen X desktop and Omen 17 laptop are equipped with the latest CPUs and GPUs for the best gaming and virtual reality experiences. These are among HP's most expensive PCs outside of the professional Z workstations.The Omen X is a cube, with two stands holding the chassis upright. The desktop combines air and liquid cooling to dissipate heat, and the unique chassis design provides a great ventilation system.The desktop has the bells and whistles typically found in gaming rigs. It can be configured with Intel's latest Core i5 or i7-6700K CPU, and up to two Nvidia GTX 1080 or AMD Radeon R9 Fury X GPUs, which are among the fastest available. The PC can also be configured with AMD's latest Radeon RX 480 based on the Polaris architecture.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Here’s how to get the Windows 10 Mobile Anniversary Update

Microsoft has begun rolling out its big Anniversary Update for smartphones running Windows 10 Mobile. Users who want to get their hands on it will be able to do so through their phone, according to a blog post update by Microsoft on Tuesday. To check for the update, users should open up the Settings app, then navigate through Update & Security > Phone update > Check for update. After that, the phone should download the update and install it. However, Microsoft notes that actually getting the update is dependent on a variety of factors, including "manufacturer, model, country or region, mobile operator or service provider, hardware limitations and other factors." To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft will bring holographic ‘mixed reality’ to every Windows 10 PC

Microsoft is bringing Windows Holographic to the masses with a forthcoming update to Windows 10, in a move to make it easier to blend physical and digital reality on any PC.  Windows Holographic will be made available through a software update sometime in 2017, Terry Myerson, executive vice president of the Windows and Devices Group, said at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday. Microsoft and Intel are working together to provide minimum hardware specifications for Windows Holographic PCs and headsets, he added.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Apple’s habits peg Sept. 7 for iPhone 7 reveal

Apple will unveil the newest iPhones in just over three weeks, on Wednesday, Sept. 7, if the company sticks to a well-worn groove that makes its biggest product launch predictable.The date fits with previous iPhone cycles, notably last year's introduction of the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus.Apple unveiled those models on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015, preceded by the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2014; the iPhone 5S and 5C on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013; and the iPhone 5 on Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012.Like last year, a Wednesday roll-out is probable because of the Labor Day holiday in the U.S., which falls on Sept. 5. If Apple hosted the event on Tuesday, Sept. 6, employees would have to work on the off day to prepare, and the invited reporters and analysts would have to travel on Labor Day.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Google’s new Fuchsia OS may take over the IoT

With Google apparently working to develop a new operating system, speculation is centered on whether the company is looking to play a big role in running the Internet of Things (IoT). "The important thing is that this could be Google's bid to supply the OS that runs Internet of Things-type systems," said Dan Olds, an analyst with OrionX, a technology analyst firm. "This could be an OS to run on sensors that, for example, check on fertilizer levels in farmers' fields or voice recognition features for fitness products. The array of possibilities in these devices is endless and they all need some sort of operating system."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Audis will be able to talk to traffic lights this year

Audi announced today that its 2017 vehicles will be available with vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication technology that enables them to inform drivers when lights will switch from red to green. Audi of America will begin to roll out the traffic light information feature as part of its suite of Audi connect PRIME services later this fall in select smart cities and in metropolitan areas across the country through 2017. The company said traffic light information system is only the first step in V2I integration.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

Microsoft’s .Net Framework will get its own Patch Tuesday

Microsoft in October is introducing .Net Framework Monthly Rollup to provide security and quality updates to its programming model for Windows. The move aligns with the Windows Monthly Rollup, which does the same thing for the Windows OS.Both rollups were unveiled on Monday and will be available on Patch Tuesday each month, according to Microsoft.[ Solve your Win10 installation headaches with our Windows 10 Installation Superguide. Download it today! | Stay up on key Microsoft technologies with the Windows newsletter. ] "The .Net Framework Monthly Rollup is a single install that updates each supported .Net Framework version on a machine to its latest respective update level," said Microsoft's Stacey Haffner. "Each monthly rollup supersedes the last one, so you if you've missed the last few months of updates, you only need to install the latest rollup to update to the latest update level." The rollup installs only security and reliability updates, not a new version of .Net Framework.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

How 3 fintech startups are shaking up security

Today’s financial technology startups (“fintech” for short) are taking on some of today’s greatest security challenges. Armed with drive and a need for innovation, these companies have created new services and security approaches that are changing the financial industry. Here’s how three such companies are competing based on security.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)

RiskSense lands $7M for assessment service

RiskSense, software-as-a-service that evaluates the security of corporate networks and generates a risk score, has been self-financed since its launch last year, but now has harnessed venture funding to help boost its R&D and hire marketing and sales staff.The $7 million funding round includes Paladin Capital Group, Sun Mountain Capital, EPIC Ventures, and other strategic and private investors. Tim Greene RiskSense CEO Srinivas MukkamalaTo read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

IDG Contributor Network: Sencha helps modernize legacy Oracle apps

Sencha is a web application development platform that has long been used by customers to build modern web and mobile applications. It has a strong existing business with a claimed 60 percent of the Fortune 100 using its services.Notwithstanding an existing customer base, Sencha has always had a bit of a glaring omission—it didn't really move the needle for all of those organizations whose core workflows sit on software from legacy vendors such as SAP and Oracle. It's all very well having some cool lightweight point applications, but if those have no real context within a broader legacy application paradigm, it's kind of academic.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here

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