As I have reported before, Symantec has had problems with its server SSL certificate business for years and was on double-super probation. Symantec bought its certificate business mostly from Verisign in 2010 for about 1.2 billion dollars. It also bought the certificate businesses of Thawte, Equifax and others Last month it sold that business to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired ran a piece a few weeks ago with the title of this post. An alternative title might be “How to get yourself arrested and prosecuted“. While Wired’s heart was in the right place, they probably should have consulted an attorney before they published the article. The basic premise of the article is that you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about an incident with a vendor to the City of Chicago who left close to two million voter records exposed on Amazon and how the vendor, in spite of the initial mistake of exposing the data, handled the breach very well (see blog post). Today we have another case and, this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some in Congress and the Intelligence Services are concerned that Kaspersky’s security software could be co-opted by the Russian government and be used to spy on American companies who use the software. Fundamentally, this is no different than concerns that people have that the U.S. spy agencies could or already have forced U.S. companies to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is certainly not a breach, it surely is not what you are expecting. Have you ever noticed after you went to a web site, started to fill out a form but then abandoned it, that you got an email from the web site? If you have gotten one, you are not alone. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While I have whined that HTTPS:// is not super secure, it is certainly way more secure then not using HTTPS. Technically known as SSL or more correctly TLS, when you type HTTPS://, it signals the web browser to work with the web site to encrypt all of your information. For the last year or two, Google […]
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