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. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.K.’s High Court Gives the U.K. Gov 6 Months to Fix Law Privacy in the U.K. is a bit of wishful thinking. Besides having the most public surveillance cameras in the world (Wikipedia says there is one camera for every 14 people in the country), the government has attempted to kill privacy in other ways. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the wake of all of the breaches that we read about on an almost daily basis, large companies have begun to take the cybersecurity threat seriously. While they are far from perfect, far from secure, they are way more secure than they were even 5 years ago. What that means is that big businesses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security. Convenience. Pick one! That is my forever mantra. Now we are finding out that when you login to your favorite site using “Login with Facebook” your data is exposed to third parties. Nice. According to research from “Freedom to Tinker” at Princeton, when a user logs in using Facebook’s API, Javascript on the site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who have been reading my blog for some time, you know that I have written about the software supply chain security problem. In a nutshell, the problem is that programmers rarely write code from zero anymore. Instead teams write pieces of code and integrate it. Then there is limited testing due […]
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