Gene Kaspersky’s anti-virus software has been banned from being used by the Federal government mostly because an NSA software developer went “off the reservation”, took some classified software home and loaded it on a personally owned PC running Kaspersky’s AV software configured by the developer to share potentially malicious software with Kaspersky, thereby compromising an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Splashdata, who makes password management software, releases a list of the top compromised passwords. They did this by collecting five million compromised passwords and analyzing them. The top password this year is, again, 123456 . The number two password is, yes, password . Number three is 12345678 . You can read the article to get all […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: What do you do if you are a company who’s software is buggy and who is outed by a well respected journalist – Ars Technica’s Dan Goodin. One approach would be to apologize. Keeper Software’s idea is to sue the journalist for false and misleading statements. The alternative would be to sue the researcher, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one on the Internet – at least most of the time. The Uber Waymo trade secret theft trial is being delayed once again. Why? Because the Department of Justice showed the Judge a 37 page letter from the lawyer of a former […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What would happen to your business if your credit card processor shut down? If you do online bill pay, what would happen if it shut down? Millions of people and businesses got to figure that one out this month when Paypal’s TIO Networks unit suddenly shut down. TIO does payment processing, both for merchants and […]
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 […]
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