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Google is changing up its release schedule for Chrome

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Google is changing the way that it rolls out updates for Chrome, it’s popular browser.

In a blog post, the company announced that it will be adding a new phase to its release schedule called the “early stable version.” The new phase will sit in between the beta and stable releases and release a week earlier than the stable release has rolled out previously.

Google says that the early stable release will be rolled out to a small percentage of users.

We are making a change to the release schedule for Chrome. From Chrome 110, the initial release date to stable will be one week earlier. This early stable version will be released to a small percentage of users, with the majority of people getting the release a week later at the normal scheduled date, this will also be the date the new version is available from the Chrome download page.

The company notes how the new release schedule will go with Chrome 110 as an example. The Beta, new Early Stable, and Stable releases will now debut as follows:

  • Beta: January 12, 2023
  • Early Stable: February 1, 2023
  • Stable: February 7, 2023

According to the company, the early stable release is being added so that the company can catch any “showstopping” issues that may not have been caught in the developer or beta releases.

By releasing stable to a small percentage of users early, we get a chance to monitor the release before it rolls out to all of our users. If any showstopping issue is discovered, it can be addressed while the impact is relatively small.

For most developers this change will have little impact. Keep following this blog for up to date information on features and any upcoming deprecations and removals. We aim to bring you any relevant information in good time for you to act upon it, before any change in Chrome.

The first Chrome update to feature the earlier stable release will be Chrome 110 when it is released in February 2023.

The change comes about two weeks after the company needed to roll out an emergency update to Chrome in order to patch a zero-day exploit.

City of Refuge offering training that is changing people’s lives – WSB-TV Channel 2

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ATLANTA — The US Federal Reserve says Black and brown families earn about half of what white families earn. But there’s a local program that’s designed to change that.

The non-profit City of Refuge is looking for people who are interested in computers to come and take a coding class or a cyber-security class for free. When you’re done, you could get a job paying as much as $85,000 a year.

“I was actually the security guard at the front gate here,” Nicholas Jordan said.

Jordan was a security guard with no college education, but he heard about City of Refuge and its cyber security class.

He graduated in May, has a full-time job and his life is forever changed.

“I’ve doubled my income and I’m in a much more stable place. The things that I’m learning, I’m engaged mentally all the time,” Jordan said.

Harvard University said Black families make one-tenth the income that white families take home.

City of Refuge is trying to change that by offering computer coding and cybersecurity classes for free.

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“Our lowest paying jobs have been in the low 50′s and the highest has been 80, a lot of 65, 75′s in there, full benefit’s, full pay package,” City of Refuge employment specialist Ron Cofiled told Channel 2′s Dave Huddleston.

The department of labor has given City of Refuge a $2.5 million grant to train 280 under-employed or unemployed people. So far, 74 students have graduated. Some 35 people like Sharaima Colson are currently enrolled in the 9-month program.

“It’s absolutely amazing,” Colson said.

She said if you want a better life there are opportunities out there.

“I feel very excited about the fact that, me being a middle-aged woman, and I’m able to go out pursue something new and encourage other women, and say, ‘Hey, you can do this too,’” Colson said.

City of Refuge is ready to sign up the next class. In fact, the grant is funded through 2025.

If you would like to enroll, City of Refuge said the next Cyber & Coding Class starts in mid-February 2023. There is an open house every Monday at 1 p.m. at City of Refuge, located at 1300 Joseph E. Boone Boulevard in their workforce hub.

CLICK HERE to apply or email City of Refuge’s lead…

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Hackers changing tactics on Cyber Monday, seek your computer password

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Today is Cyber Monday and with all the online shopping comes hackers.

Cyber security company Check Point says this year, they’re especially seeing one type of email called shipping spoofing.

“If I know I didn’t buy anything from Louis Vuitton, I’m gonna know it’s a phishing email,” said Tony Sabaj, head of engineering with Check Point Software. “But everybody’s bought something online and it’s coming via USPS, DHL or FedEx in most cases, so I’m gonna be more likely to fall for a phishing attempt from a shipper than a retailer I may have never shopped at.”

One example claims to be from the postal service, but the actual email address is not from the postal service at all.

That’s the best and easiest way to spot these emails.

”And you can look at that by either mousing over the display name and it’ll show you the actual email address or on a mobile phone,” said Sabaj. “As I said before, I’ll just hit reply. That’s the easiest way to see what the email is. I won’t actually reply.”

He says hackers are either after your passwords or want to put malware on your computer.

So what should you do if you click on a link in one of these emails?

Check Point says to go to the real website the email was spoofing and change your password right away.

If you use that password on any other sites, change those too.

If you’re on a personal device, run a scan with whatever security software you use, and if this happened on a work device, report it right away to your corporate IT.

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Federal Identity Cards Must Adapt to Changing Security Environments

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PIV Cards Are Compatible with Cloud-Based Web Applications

Federal IT managers who have been thinking about zero trust and how it relates to existing FICAM compliant authentication systems need to know about advances in the commercial space that may affect them.

Let’s take a few seconds to review how PIV cards work. PIV cards contain digital certificates and, more important, private keys assigned to each user.

The digital certificate, issued by some certification authority (CA) within the federal PKI tree, describes the user’s identity. The private key is used with public/private cryptography to prove that the user is in control of the PIV card and has it at the moment of authentication.

This certificate-based authentication is widely supported in most enterprise web applications, desktop and laptop operating systems, and VPN applications.

As any PIV user knows, this method of authentication is extremely resistant to credential theft, which makes it very secure.

The main issue with PIV-based authentication is that it is based on a walled garden within the federal PKI tree. This makes enrollment in PIV a cumbersome and time- consuming process, and one which is not friendly to contractors or other third parties.

PIV cards have other limitations that affect both usability and security. They are poorly supported on mobile devices, require some additional reader hardware, and the physical user must be present.

EXPLORE: How agencies are implementing zero trust and modernization.

FIDO2: If PIV Had Been Invented 20 Years Later

While PIV is dominant in the federal private infrastructure, cloud and enterprise application vendors are exploring new ways to combine the passwordless security of certificate-based authentication with other enrollment models.

The FIDO2 standards, coordinated by the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance, and their interoperability with , coordinated by the World Wide Web Consortium, are the most important new technologies to know about.

The FIDO Alliance made a big splash earlier this year when Microsoft, Apple and Google, along with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, announced their commitment to pushing FIDO2 into desktop and mobile…

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