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Stefanik says U.S. slow to harden military installations for climate change, cyber war – North Country Public Radio

Stefanik says U.S. slow to harden military installations for climate change, cyber war  North Country Public Radio
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10 ways to harden the security on your Android phone – PC Authority


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10 ways to harden the security on your Android phone
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In the future, Google hopes that machine learning will identify security holes and protect Android from malicious apps. For now, it relies partly upon a pair of in-house tools. For apps, there's Bouncer – an automated system that analyses apps

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Tor coders harden the onion against surveillance

Nine coders are working on an exploit prevention tool to harden Tor against attacks. “Selfrando” could help lots of other software, too…
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Microsoft updates EMET security tool to solve compatibility issues, harden exploit mitigations

Microsoft’s Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit (EMET), a security program popular with companies, was updated Monday to harden the exploit mitigations that it adds to other programs and to address compatibility issues with some of them.

The compatibility issues affected popular applications including Internet Explorer, Adobe Reader, Adobe Flash, and Mozilla Firefox when EMET mitigations like Export Address Table Filtering Plus (EAF+) were applied to them.

Like most EMET mitigations, EAF+ is a set of safeguards and checks designed to block the execution of arbitrary code when memory corruption vulnerabilities are exploited. It was first added in EMET 5.0, released in July.

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