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]ARS Technica wrote a piece on the continuing security flaw with password managers like LastPass and KeePass on Android. Technically, the problem is an Android problem, but from the user’s standpoint they don’t really care. The problem is tools like LastPass and many others use the Android clipboard to automatically log you on to a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI released a warning this week regarding the Internet of Things security, which is pretty unusual. As a result, a lot of digital ink has been used up writing about it. I will use up a little more digital ink. What is unusual is the FBI warning doesn’t mention any particular issue – it […]
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]There was a recent Network World article that reported that some people are freaking out because IF you setup Windows 10 to do facial recognition to log you in, it works even if you have disabled your camera. Call me dumb, but if you ask Windows to use the camera to log you in, it […]
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