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Microsoft and Apple Security Updates, Signal’s Sealed Sender, Girl Scouts Data Breach – WB41

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This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for November 5th 2018 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Microsoft and Apple security Updates, Signal’s sealed sender and the Girl Scouts data breach.

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Hi everyone, this is Tom Eston, Co-host of the Shared Security podcast. Welcome to the Shared Security Weekly Blaze where we update you on the top 3 security and privacy topics from the week. These weekly podcasts are published every Monday and are 15 minutes or less quickly giving you “news that you can use”.

This past week Microsoft announced that its built-in anti-virus application called Windows Defender now has the ability to run within a ‘sandbox” environment. Sandboxing allows an application to run in a separate environment away from the rest of the Windows operating system and other applications installed on a PC. Sandboxing in Windows Defender is a very important security update given that Windows Defender runs as a high-privileged service and is a large target for attackers to compromise. Windows Defender is also the only anti-virus solution on the market with this capability. In order to enable sandboxing in Windows Defender you need to make a quick environment variable change within Windows if you want to use this feature right away. However, Microsoft plans on deploying this update to all Windows Defender users in the near future. See our show notes for details on how to enable sandboxing if you’re interested in using this new feature.

In other security update news, Apple has released several new security updates on the heels of the announcement of new Macs and iPads at Apple’s event last Thursday. Security updates for macOS Mojave, High Sierra, Sierra, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, Safari, iTunes, and iCloud for Windows were all released. One particular serious vulnerability for macOS could potentially allow remote code execution or crash your device. During the Apple event on Thursday, Apple also announced that with new MacBooks that have a new T2 security chip, will automatically disable the microphone when the lid of the MacBook is closed. This new privacy control will prevent any type of software, especially spyware or “stalkerware” with root or kernel privileges from engaging the microphone when the lid is closed. This privacy feature is a large step forward to help combat malware that may be installed without user’s knowledge for surveillance and stalking. Be sure to listen to episode 40 of this podcast for more details on stalkerware and how to know if one of these apps may be installed on your device.

These two stories once again emphasize that it’s important to keep the operating systems and anti-virus software on your devices and even hardware up-to-date for the most current security and privacy protections.

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