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Tech News Flash: Friday -- October 11, 2019

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Setting Up Roadblocks to Social Engineering
Stop Cyberattacks in Their Tracks: Secure IT
Austrumi Linux Has Great Potential if You Speak Its Language
Apple Touts Games, Music, TV in macOS Catalina
Sonos Launches Rent-a-Speaker Pilot Program
Devs Engage in Soul-Searching on Future of Open Source

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Today's Story Highlights

Setting Up Roadblocks to Social Engineering
Since the dawn of the Internet age, criminals have looked for ways to
profit on unsuspecting people while they browse the Web. Viruses,
malware and other schemes were invented to infect and infiltrate
systems, both at the enterprise and consumer levels. One of the most
successful forms of cybercrime is social engineering, also known as the
con man of the Internet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86287.html

Stop Cyberattacks in Their Tracks: Secure IT
Stopping cyberattacks requires diligent behavior. One of the themes of
this year's National Cyber Security Awareness Month, or NCSAM, is that
all computer users should take steps to Secure IT. That means shaking up
the passphrase protocol by using not just strong passwords but strong
and unique passphrases. Everyone should double login protection through
multifactor authentication.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86286.html

Austrumi Linux Has Great Potential if You Speak Its Language
Austrumi Linux is an unusual distribution. With a little more polish, it
could be a good tool for running Linux on any computer you touch without
changing anything on the hard drive. Last updated on Oct. 3 to version
4.08, Austrumi Linux is a bootable live Linux distribution based on
Slackware Linux. It was created and is maintained by a group of
programmers from the Latgale region of Latvia.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86285.html

Apple Touts Games, Music, TV in macOS Catalina
New versions of operating systems are usually about slick interfaces and
improved performance, but that's not what Apple was flogging about macOS
Catalina upon its release. One of the hot new additions in the OS is
Apple Arcade, a game subscription service featuring a batch of new,
exclusive games. Also bolstering macOS Catalina's entertainment chops
are new music, podcast and TV apps.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86280.html

Sonos Launches Rent-a-Speaker Pilot Program
Subscription models have taken hold in everything from software to
smartphones, and now Sonos is testing the idea in the premium wireless
speaker market. The Santa Barbara, California, company has launched a
pilot program limited to 500 homes in the Netherlands, which allows
consumers to gain access to Sonos hardware for the equivalent of about
$16.46 a month.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86279.html

Devs Engage in Soul-Searching on Future of Open Source
Two things to avoid in online discussions are politics and religion.
Open source technology may be an explosive third topic that software
developers should be wary of subjecting to a virtual debate. Automattic
CEO Matt Mullenweg and Ruby on Rails creator and Basecamp cofounder
David Heinemeier Hansson got into an all-out Twitter slugfest last week
about the role of open source.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/86282.html

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