People who know me know that I am always railing against people who want to curb encryption, but encryption does present legitimate problems. Firefox Send is a great program that allows users to encrypt data – large files – and send a link to a recipient to allow them to download the file. I use […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook says that 50% of its employees could be working remotely in 5 years. My guess is that this could be the new normal, which is not so good if you own a lot of expensive commercial real estate in a big down town. Zuck also says that employees that move from say San Francisco […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]More than three-fourths of mobile banking vulnerabilities can be exploited without physical access to the phone. A new report from Positive Technologies has a number of sobering facts: 100 percent of mobile banking apps contain code vulnerabilities due to a lack of code obfuscation. NONE of the mobile banking apps tested had an acceptable level […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As IoT devices proliferate, a lot of them don’t get updated. Ever. Some IoT devices automatically update themselves, but a lot of them do not have the smarts to do that. Hopefully all of them talk to their controller over HTTTPS – encrypted traffic. But there is a problem with that. HTTPS certificates expire and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Minneapolis City Web Sites Hit by Denial of Service Attacks Last Thursday, early in the morning, a number of City of Minneapolis web sites were disabled by denial of service attacks. The attacks are short lived and the city was able to restore most of the services within a few hours. It is certainly possible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reports are that reported breaches are down. This is likely not due to the fact that there are less breaches, just less reports. Wait six months and see what the breach reports look like. Security firm Tessian released their State of Data Loss report and here are some of the things they found. 52 percent […]
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