BlackBerry KEYone: Signature QWERTY Keyboard Smartphone Returns Running Android – NDTV


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BlackBerry KEYone: Signature QWERTY Keyboard Smartphone Returns Running Android
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Under the agreement, BlackBerry will remain in control of software and security on smartphones, while TCL will handle creating handsets powered by Google Android software. Officials from both firms unvailed the KEYone in Barcelona in northeastern Spain …

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Mushrooming World of Ransomware Has Its Eye on Businesses – Credit Union Times

Mushrooming World of Ransomware Has Its Eye on Businesses
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In addition, 49% of ransomware detections, 31% of Android malware detections and 37% of adware detections were from Europe-based devices. However, North American businesses are a huge target: 81% of all the ransomware detected in corporate …

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Which Smartphone Will Serve for Secure Military Communications? – i-HLS – Israel Homeland Security


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Which Smartphone Will Serve for Secure Military Communications?
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In fact, BT originally began working with an Android device, the Samsung Note 4, “but as more and more development and testing was done, the security associated with it wasn't deemed to be sufficient, so that's why we moved [to iPhone],” said Bunn.

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Replace SHA-1. It’s not that hard.

Now that SHA-1 has been broken it’s time for enterprises that have ignored its potential weakness for years to finally act, and it’s not that hard.

The most common use of the hash function is in securing SSL and TLS connections, and to get rid of SHA-1 in that use is to utilize browsers and servers that don’t support it. Depending on the size of an organization, this isn’t onerous, says Paul Ducklin, a senior security advisor at Sophos. (See his excellent description of the problem with SHA-1 and other hashing algorithms.)

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