McAfee Labs reported that 80% of the participants in its online phishing test failed at least one of the seven parts of the test. Combine this with a reported 250,000 new phishing URLs in the last quarter, 1,000,000 in the last year, and think about the likelihood that one of your employees will fall victim […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, this is for real. Russian entrepreneurs have figured out there is a market for this. According to an article in ITWorld, there is a business in hacking iCloud accounts. Get the password by some means and then using EPPB from Elcomsoft, the hacker can grab just pictures or contact or messages – just what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just read a white paper on a security vendor’s (Prevoty.com) web site and I think they really understand the problem. I have not had a chance to review their products, so I make no claims about them, but I do recommend reading the article. First a quote from the paper: Traditional security is like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It has been reported in the NY Times, among other places, that a Russian crime gang has amassed 1.2 BILLION userid/password combinations, along with 500 million email addresses. Even to me, that is a large number. The passwords represent data stolen from 420,000 web sites, including both large and small companies. The bad news is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an item in USA Today, counties in New York State not only snap pictures of your license plate, but keep them in a database with date-time and location information. The data is accessible by police throughout the state as well has the Department of Homeland Security. If you take a bunch of pictures […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is an article in Slate that suggests that we should treat public computers like we treat public restrooms – very cautiously. I had never made that analogy before, but I do like it. Both public restrooms and public computers may harbor germs and viruses. Both may have been frequented in the recent past by […]
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