Last week I wrote about an incident with a vendor to the City of Chicago who left close to two million voter records exposed on Amazon and how the vendor, in spite of the initial mistake of exposing the data, handled the breach very well (see blog post). Today we have another case and, this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This case of intrigue may seem like it belongs in a spy novel, but in this case, it is winding up in the Board Room and the court room. Here is the story. Chicago based Guaranteed Rate courted the employee of a much smaller rival mortgage company, Benjamin Anderson. While still employed at the smaller […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When you log on to a “secure” web site – one that that you access via HTTPS:// instead of HTTP:// , you do that because the web site bought a certificate from a certificate authority. Those certificates work because the browsers – all of them – “trust” the makers of those certificates. How do those […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Before a few days ago, I had never heard of MasterPrints. Of course, there are many things that I have never heard about. MasterPrints, of course, have to do with security. Have you ever heard of MasterPrints? Here is the story. Everyone is familiar with fingerprint sensors on cell phones and other devices. They are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some in Congress and the Intelligence Services are concerned that Kaspersky’s security software could be co-opted by the Russian government and be used to spy on American companies who use the software. Fundamentally, this is no different than concerns that people have that the U.S. spy agencies could or already have forced U.S. companies to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While I have whined that HTTPS:// is not super secure, it is certainly way more secure then not using HTTPS. Technically known as SSL or more correctly TLS, when you type HTTPS://, it signals the web browser to work with the web site to encrypt all of your information. For the last year or two, Google […]
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