The Internet of Things never fails to amaze me. And make us think outside of the box. As the British publication The Register said, your smart lock may be knackered. Google says that knacker means damage severely and I think they are right. Here is the story. For AirBnB hosts, one security challenge they have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This case of intrigue may seem like it belongs in a spy novel, but in this case, it is winding up in the Board Room and the court room. Here is the story. Chicago based Guaranteed Rate courted the employee of a much smaller rival mortgage company, Benjamin Anderson. While still employed at the smaller […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The security firm FireEye has said that they have moderate confidence that a campaign targeting hotels in Europe are the work of the Russian hacking group APT28. One way the attack works is to send a phishing email to hotel staff with an infected Word document with a name related to a hotel reservation form. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The European Union has passed a new privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation and it goes into effect in May of 2018. For companies that do not do business or have customers in Europe, this regulation may not effect you. However, if you have customers in Europe, even if you do not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are some folks who say that open source software is much better than proprietary (commercial) software because you can look at the source code. Ignoring whether you are I would know what we are looking at, it isn’t so simple as this story will tell. On the other hand, proprietary (commercial) software isn’t a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When you log on to a “secure” web site – one that that you access via HTTPS:// instead of HTTP:// , you do that because the web site bought a certificate from a certificate authority. Those certificates work because the browsers – all of them – “trust” the makers of those certificates. How do those […]
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