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| | | Kuo Predicts New iPad Mini 5, Airpower Launch in Late 2018 or Early 2019, More | | 9to5Mac | "We’re one week away from Apple’s big October 30th event, and reliable supply chain analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities has some newsworthy predictions. For Apple’s event next week, Kuo expects Apple to unveil several hardware revisions: Two new USB-C equipped iPad Pro updates with better displays, a 'new-design' Apple Pencil for the updated iPad Pro hardware, and at least three new Macs including a 'low-price' MacBook and updated Mac mini and iMac processors," writes Zac Hall. | | How to Combat Departing Employee-induced Data Loss | | CIO Dive | "Every time an employee leaves an organization (willingly or not) and takes company data with them (either knowingly or not), businesses face significant cost and time losses. According to a recent report by the Ponemon Institute, the average cost per lost or stolen record is $148 and the average data breach can range from a low of 2,500 compromised records to over 100,000," writes Brian Rutledge. (In SaaS environments especially, employee-induced data loss can happen all too easily in many different ways. That's why BetterCloud helps with DLP and offers one-off/automated remediation actions to prevent data loss incidents.) | | Microsoft Windows Zero-day Disclosed on Twitter, Again | | ZDNet | A security researcher has disclosed a Windows zero-day vulnerability on Twitter for the second time in the span of two months. The researcher, who goes online by the pseudonym of SandboxEscaper, also published proof-of-concept (PoC) on GitHub. This second Windows zero-day affects the Microsoft Data Sharing (dssvc.dll), a local service that provides data brokering between applications. According to several security experts who analyzed the zero-day's PoC, an attacker can use it to elevate their privileges on systems they already have access to. | | Firefox 63 Blocks Tracking Cookies, Offers a VPN When You Need One | | Ars Technica | Firefox 63, out yesterday, includes the first iteration of what Mozilla is calling Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP), a feature to improve privacy and stop your activity across the Web from being tracked. The new EPT option works as a more selective block on tracking cookies; third-party cookies still work in general, but those that are known to belong to tracking companies are blocked. A second privacy-related feature may be a little more contentious. Starting from today, a random selection of US Firefox users will be offered a subscription to ProtonVPN. |
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