In a classic TSA response, the TSA says that this is no big deal. First, here is what they said in 2003 when they introduced them: TSA official Ken Lauterstein described them as part of the agency’s efforts to develop “practical solutions that contribute toward our goal of providing world-class security and world-class customer service.” Now, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI director James Comey has been telling everyone that the world will end unless every company around the world provides the FBI and only the FBI a back door to allow them to decrypt your communications. This includes countries we like and ones we don’t like. So far the world isn’t listening to him, but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Target announced that they were breached in December of 2013 – about 22 months ago. This week a federal judge certified a class action against Target by a number of banks. Target says they are “disappointed” by the decision. This comes a month after Target agreed to pay Visa up to $67 million to settle […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple and the Department of Justice are not getting along these days. The DoJ wants Apple to feed them real time iMessage traffic for someone the DoJ is quietly investigating. Apple says that the way their system is designed, this is not possible. If the user stores their messages in iCloud, they can give the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Pierluigi Paganini, a fellow security blogger in Italy, wrote about a situation with Vodaphone where a Vodaphone employee rumaged through a journalist’s texts and phone calls to try and find the source of a story that the journalist wrote which was critical of Vodaphone’s security. The journalist, Natalie O’Brien, pictured above, described it as “creepy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As every traveler knows, if you lock your suitcase, you need to use a TSA approved lock or else they will break your lock if they want in. That was OK (maybe; those locks are not very secure anyway) until someone at the TSA allowed the Washington Post to photograph their master key (why, I […]
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