If you watch those spy movies, they always seem to show the hackers routing their traffic from computer to computer, making it hard to impossible to find them. While it is way harder that it seems in the movies, it is very doable. But in a boned-headed move, many home router manufacturers have enabled a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what is likely no surprise to anyone who watches Washington and especially this administration, there seems to be a bit of confusion regarding cyber security policy. Is it any wonder, given that, that U.S. businesses are equally confused? Case in point – ZTE. ZTE is a Chinese electronics manufacturer with “close ties” to the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Irish High Court Deals Blow to Facebook In yet another case that could deal a blow to the way that Facebook and others transfer data between the EU and the US, the Irish High Court told Facebook that it would not stay it’s “referral” to the European Court of Justice. The case in question is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One category credit fraud is when a hacker opens up new credit accounts in your name, runs up the bill and leaves you to deal with the mess. While in the long run, if you are persistent, the law favors the consumer, it can be a long slog to get it taken care of. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are always in a cat-and-mouse game with the good guys (and gals) as the hackers try to do us in and the good guys try to swat them away. Microsoft has an add-on to Office 365 called Advanced Threat Protection or ATP. One of the things that ATP does is make links inside emails […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have trained users to look for a padlock next to a website’s address like it means that you are safe. Unfortunately, as we all know, it hasn’t quite worked out very well. At least not for us. Expecting the average user to understand what the padlock means – and doesn’t mean – is unreasonable. […]
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