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Microsoft set the patching world on its ear on Monday when it released an "out of band" patch to fix a vulnerability known as CVE-2019-1367. Susan Bradley raised the alarm immediately. I chimed in a few hours later with more details.

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Enterprise users can now wrap a new layer of security around their web services, thanks to Appleintroduction of support for USB security keys in Safari 13.0.1.

Enterprise-class security

Dongles aren&t a terribly convenient security protection for most people, but government, military and regulated industries are always searching out new ways to secure themselves and their data.

FIDO2-compliant USB security keys & such as those made by Yubico & add a layer of security to the verification process:Not only must users enter passwords and potentially use biometric authentication such as Touch/Face ID, but they must also insert and authorize a USB security key.

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Itaround the turn of the millennium, and not everyone trusts that newfangled internet. (OK, those people might have been wiser than we knew.) In fact, pilot fish reports, he had a family member who was so paranoid about the dangers of the internet that they had to rename their intranet as the &Iweb.& Says fish: &‘Intranet,& you see, sounded too much like well, you know.&

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