Proprietary Security Failures and Shams
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The Record ☛ Network outages in Birmingham persist as city officials stay tight-lipped
The city of Birmingham, Alabama, is still experiencing outages limiting government services more than a week after a network “disruption” forced officials to switch to cash transactions and to take other temporary actions.
In a brief update posted to social media on Thursday evening, the city said its offices “remain open and staff is committed to serving the public despite a network disruption first announced a week ago.”
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Engadget ☛ 2024-03-08 [Older] Russian state-sponsored hackers keep trying to infiltrate Microsoft [Ed: The real issue is Microsoft holes, not Russia]
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Matthew Garrett ☛ Digital forgeries are hard [Ed: The author is forging identities online]
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Chrome
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[Repeat] Security Week ☛ Chrome's Standard Safe Browsing Now Has Real-Time URL Protection [Ed: Google babysitting people inside the browser that is remotely monitored/controlled by Google and this is sold to the public as "security"]
“If we suspect a site poses a risk to you or your device, you’ll see a warning with more information. By checking sites in real time, we expect to block 25% more phishing attempts,” Google notes.
By keeping the list server-side, Safe Browsing also avoids scenarios where devices do not have the necessary resources to store the full list, which grows at a rapid pace, or apply updates in a timely manner.
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