First, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that the 15 year old Safe Harbor agreement which allowed companies to transfer data between the E.U. and the U.S. was invalid. Effective immediately. Then the Article 29 Working Group (who is responsible for Safe Harbor) met and said that if the E.U. and U.S. don’t come […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google interviewed and/or surveyed hundreds of users and experts to see how they thought on security issues. Not completely surprisingly, there were many differences. Here are a few: The #1 difference between experts and real people is in INSTALLING UPDATES. Experts rated that as the most important thing to do to improve security. 35% of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired and other media are reporting the the head of the CIA, John Brennan, had his personal email account hacked. The hacker, a teenager, talked to Wired about how he did it. It points to general weaknesses in commercial online services security that you should understand. It is less of a surprise that Brennan’s commercial, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Encryption can be very secure. Or Not. It depends on how it is implemented. Apparently, at least according to some sources, most of the Internet has gotten it wrong. That’s not very comforting. The rules of who people are protecting themselves from has changed from just a few years ago. Now we are talking about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It was reported across the media late last month that the Hilton Hotel chain had a credit card breach. While some media is reporting that the dates of the attack are from April 21 to July 27 of this year, Brian Krebs is reporting that sources are telling him that the breach may go as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), the group that is responsible for dealing with the fallout from the European Court of Justice invalidation of the Safe Harbor Agreement, met for the first time since the decision to start sorting things out. For companies moving data between the U.S. and the E.U., there were some good things […]
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