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Financial Institutions are Risking Customer’s Data. And Money.

Banks are very good at security.  Certain kinds of security, that is. They have vaults with really cool doors. Many banks have armed guards.  And alarms. In some cities they put tellers in cages to protect them (that is NOT a great metaphor). But when it comes to developing software, they are subject to the […]

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One in Three Companies Suffered Data Breaches Due To Mobile Malware

As people use their mobile devices as what one friend used to call a “pocket super computer” as opposed to something where you dial 7 digits (remember that) and talk to someone, hackers have figured out that the new attack vector is your phone. In part, this is due to the fact that finally, after […]

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Now (Some) (Important) Meta Data Can Be Encrypted

Worried about the NSA capturing all that metadata about you?  That is the stuff about you that the government says it can collect without a warrant (and courtesy of the Patriot Act) because you send it unencrypted over the Internet and so you have no expectation of privacy. A big part of the data (besides […]

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25 Android Phones Vulnerable

No big surprise here really, but still disappointing. Researchers at Def Con last week reported that they had found 47 vulnerabilities in the firmware and default apps of 25 Android phones. When they talk firmware, I don’t think they really mean firmware.  Rather, they mean the operating system like Android Oreo or Nougat, although it […]

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