Karen Roby highlights some of this weeks news coverage on TechRepublic and ZDNet. The stories include a security warning from Microsoft, a rundown of the Facebook privacy scandal and a look at the highest paying internships for 2019.

Microarchitectural Data Sampling are CPU side-channel vulnerabilities that allow attackers to view in-flight data from CPU-internal buffers. Learn more about MDS attacks in this comprehensive guide.

Staying up to date on Spectre and Meltdown can be challenging. This guide includes in-depth explanations about these uniquely dangerous security vulnerabilities and the best mitigation solutions.

A new bill introduced in the Senate this week would restrict U.S. tech exports to China and crack down on intellectual property theft.

Bet-the-company transformation that expands the attack surface requires close alignment and leadership across executive, IT and security teams.

Google is offering free replacements for its Titan Security Key after discovering a misconfiguration in its pairing protocols.

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Unknown groups have started tampering with Web traffic encryption, causing the number of fingerprints for connections using Transport Layer Security to jump from 19,000 to 1.4 billion in less than a year.

Four newly discovered vulns from the speculative-execution family bring Meltdown-like threats to Intel's processors.

One year later, the EU mandate's biggest impact has been to focus more attention on data protection and privacy, security analysts say.

If you are interested in pursuing a career in cybersecurity and don't know where to start, here's your go-to guide about salaries, job markets, skills and common interview questions in the field, as well as the top security software.

The city that gave us facial recognition tech says “not in my back yard”.

Unpatched Linux systems are vulnerable to remote compromise from the local network.

The feature still lets you see how others see you, but without leaking access tokens.

Europol said it has dismantled the cybercrime network behind the GozNym malware, which siphoned more than $100 million from businesses.

The vendor also issued a patch schedule for the still-unpatched bug in its Secure Boot trusted hardware environment, which affects most of its enterprise and SMB portfolio, amounting to millions of vulnerable devices.

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