It was really only a matter of time. As the FBI (but interestingly NOT the CIA or NSA) keeps pressing for a crypto backdoor – or whatever they would prefer to call it to make it seem more palatable – and security experts keep saying this is a really, REALLY bad idea, the universe decided […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is starting to roll out new security messages in the next week or so to help users to be able to detect spam emails and malicious web sites. For GMail read on the web or on Android devices, any message whose sender cannot be authenticated with Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or Domain Keys Identified Mail […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Knowstartup.com came up with a list of suggestions for startups in the arena of data security and privacy, but after reading it, the list is applicable to anyone, so here is my take on it: Allowing security to take a back seat (from the very beginning). Whether it is your beginning or not, sometimes companies […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Attendees at Black Hat were surveyed and the results are no more reassuring than last year. 15% have no doubt that they will have to respond to a major security breach in the next year, 25% say it is highly likely and 32% say it is somewhat likely. 63% of the security pros say that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A thousand-fold increase in crypto malware (AKA ransomware) is a pretty impressive number. The reason is that it is like taking candy from a baby – not very hard. Rather than having to figure out how to break into a computer, then figure out where the juicy data is, next getting it back to you without […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About a year ago, Android users were fighting something called the Stagefright bug. Buried deep in the bowels of the operating system was a series of bugs that would allow an attacker to send you a specially crafted text message and take over your Android phone. Stagefright affected close to a billion phones in the […]
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