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Tens of Thousands of Chromebooks Fail Due to Bug in Security Product

A large chunk of the 120,000 Chromebooks deployed at Maryland's Montgomery County schools went down last week after computers using Symantec BlueCoat security software weren't able to handle TLS 1.3 connections that Google started supporting with the release of Chrome and Chrome OS 56. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tens-of-thousands-of-chromebooks-fail-due-to-bug-in-security-product/
Border Agents Detain Programmer, Give Him Quiz to Prove He's a Software Engineer

President Trump's heightened security protocols at US borders are at the center of another controversy after border agents have resorted to giving a Nigerian man a quiz on computer science to evaluate if he was a software engineer as he proclaimed. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/government/border-agents-detain-programmer-give-him-quiz-to-prove-hes-a-software-engineer/
Sysadmin Says He Was "Authorized" to Damage Employer's Network

Michael Thomas, a systems administrators who was convicted in 2016 for destroying his employer's network before resigning his job, has filed an appeal in which his lawyers are arguing that in reality he actually was authorized to trash the company's IT network, in a criminal case that might change the way judges look at the CFAA. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/legal/sysadmin-says-he-was-authorized-to-damage-employers-network/
Windows Insider Build 15046 Introduces Application Installation Control

Microsoft released Insider Preview Build 15046 for PC to insiders in the fast ring, For the most part, this release is a bug fix with cosmetic changes. The most notable new feature, though, is the introduction of Application Installation Control, which allows admins to control what types of applications can be installed in Windows. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-insider-build-15046-introduces-application-installation-control/
Researcher Breaks reCATPCHA Using Google's Speech Recognition API

A researcher has discovered what he calls a "logic vulnerability" that allowed him to create a Python script that is fully capable of bypassing Google's reCAPTCHA fields using another Google service, the Speech Recognition API. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/researcher-breaks-recatpcha-using-googles-speech-recognition-api/
Safe Browsing on Mac Will Warn Users of Apps That Modify Chrome Settings

Google said today that starting March 31, 2017, Safe Browsing will show a special message if the user is attempting to download software known to modify Google Chrome settings, or attempting to inject ads in the user's browsing experience. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/apple/safe-browsing-on-mac-will-warn-users-of-apps-that-modify-chrome-settings/
Crypt0L0cker Ransomware is Back with Campaigns Targeting Europe

Crypt0L0cker, otherwise known as TorrentLocker, has started to make resurgence as it performs targeted campaigns at European countries. These attacks are also now using Italy's PEC system to digitaly sign SPAM emails in order to make them look more official. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/crypt0l0cker-ransomware-is-back-with-campaigns-targeting-europe/