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Hacking group “PLATINUM” used Windows’ own patching system against it

Platinum mass & well-formed crystals from Russia. (public display, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) (credit: James St. John)

Microsoft's Windows Defender Advanced Threat Hunting team works to track down and identify hacking groups that perpetrate attacks. The focus is on the groups that are most selective about their targets and that work hardest to...

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WhatsApp is now most widely used end-to-end crypto tool on the planet

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WhatsApp has enabled end-to-end encryption across all versions of its messaging and voice calling software, according to a Tuesday announcement on the company's website.

Given that WhatsApp is already in use by over 1 billion people worldwide, as users upgrade to the latest version, it will become the most widely used end-to-end crypto tool.

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Moment of truth: Feds must say if they used backdoored Juniper firewalls

(credit: Jeremy Brooks )

Congressional oversight leaders are requiring most federal agencies to audit their networks to see if they use Juniper-manufactured firewalls that for four years contained an unauthorized backdoor for eavesdropping on encrypted communications.

Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform gave the agencies until February 4 to produce documents...

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How Microsoft’s fitness tracker, cloud technology was used at the Squash World Championships
Squash Final
Sports and Microsoft’s technology met this weekend at the 2015 Men’s World Squash Championship in Bellevue, Wash. The world’s top 50 male squash players spent the past week competing against each other at the annual tournament, which was held in the U.S. for the first time ever and just a few minutes away from Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond. Microsoft implemented some...
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