RSA Security says that the number of fraudulent transactions originating from mobile devices is up 200% since 2015. In 2015 only 5% of fraudulent transactions originated from mobile; in 1st quarter 2018 it was 39%. The volume of fraudulent transactions overall is up 680% and up by 63% since 1st quarter 2017. On the other […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While most of the general user base has never heard of DNS and of those that have, only a few of those understand how it works, that has not stopped the hackers from very effectively abusing it against everyone. Very simply, DNS maps the www.xyz.com names that people use in their browsers into the IP […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Does it Right Matt Green, the well known cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins said this about the encrypted messaging app Signal: “After reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.” But even nice code isn’t perfect. Last Friday, researchers announced very serious bug in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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