In case you thought you were being paranoid, you were not. Have you ever gone to a web site, wandered around but never clicked on anything and then closed the browser only to see an ad for whatever you were looking at show up on some other web site? There is a reason for that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This may turn out to be a lesson in Internet law for everyone. In October 2016, hackers breached Uber’s systems and made off with personal information for 57 million customers. They also made off with other information for 7 million Uber drivers and 600,000 drivers license numbers. Uber says that no socials or credit cards […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have long complained about ads on web sites delivering malicious content in addition to ads. In fact, I have even advocated blocking ads because of it, but since most web sites exist because of the revenue generated from those ads, the ad content is only getting more invasive. There have been many incidents of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been a strong advocate for two factor authentication and still am, but I ran across a situation yesterday that made me realize that there is something that you need to consider when you implement two factor. The situation that I encountered was a user that was using text messages for two factor authentication […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember a few weeks ago when Amazon said they had a solution to packages being stolen off people’s porches? It involved a remote control door lock and a security camera. Many people – not just security people – winced at the idea. After all, what could possibly go wrong? Well just a couple of weeks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Under President Obama, the feds created this non binding policy document called the Vulnerability Equities Process. This came after Snowden disclosed a long assumed fact that the spy organizations were hoarding bugs to use against whomever they wanted to rather than telling the developers about them so that they could be fixed. Of course, we are […]
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