The Android community is slowly beginning to understand that they are going to have to step up to the plate and deal with security like Apple has done from the beginning. The challenge is that unlike Apple, where there is one master in control, the Android community is fractured. The only one who has any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While there has been a lot of noise over the ECJ ruling invalidating Safe Harbor based on NSA spying among other things, there has not been much talk about what the EU countries are doing. Basically, it is no different than what we are doing. Given that most communications live on the Internet, you certainly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the world of a connected home (or any other building), when you sell it or buy it, you need to consider the security and privacy implications. Does the former owner still have access to the security cameras? HVAC? Alarm system? Are the smart devices not so smart anymore? Have they EVER been patched? Are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former NSA director Michael Hayden says that he would not support [FBI] Director [James] Comey’s demands for access, according to a story by Motherboard. This goes against the “wishes” of the current FBi director and head of the NSA. It is clear to me that if everything is transmitted unencrypted, with weak encryption or with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]American Banker ran a piece this morning digesting the Experian breach announced last week. It said it was good that the breach only compromised 15 million T-Mobile customers instead of the hundreds of millions of customers that probably live in the Experian Decision Analytics service platform and that it only took them two weeks to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adobe announced patches yesterday for 23 additional Flash vulnerabilities. 18 of these bugs can be used to run malicious code on the underlying computer. To see what version you are running, go to: WWW.Adobe.com/software/flash/about That web page will give you the version that you are running, the current version that you should be running and […]
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