Security: Bolt, Updates, NIST, Starbucks
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Red Hat's Latest Project: "Bolt" To Deal With Linux Thunderbolt Security
"Bolt" is a new project by Red Hat / GNOME developers in dealing with Thunderbolt 3 security levels on Linux.
With Thunderbolt allowing unfettered access to PCI Express, it's super fast but opens up the plug-and-play port to DMA attacks and more. Thus with Thunderbolt 3 they introduced the concept of security levels, which Bolt is part of the equation for supporting this security feature on Linux.
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Security updates for Thursday
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NIST Releases New Cybersecurity Framework Draft
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Researchers Create Chips That Are Unhackable and Virtually Indestructible
Keeping critical information like your online banking login or credit card number out of the wrong hands is a crucial but difficult part of living in the age of the Internet. Installing antivirus software or using password lockboxes are probably security precautions that you’ve taken to keep yourself from becoming a cybercrime statistic. But organizations like the military have access to such sensitive information that these standard precautions just aren’t enough.
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Starbucks Free WiFi ‘Caught Sucking Cryptocoins’ Off The Laptops Of Coffee Addicts
Dunkin noticed a strange 10-second delay his laptop took while connecting to the WiFi. He later found a cryptocurrency mining code on his laptop.
He was quick to bring the issue to the coffee brand’s attention via Twitter where Dunking also included a screenshot of the code he found.
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