Merchants want you to believe that HTTPS equals secure. I keep saying that it doesn’t. Here is another story for my side of the argument. First, a little background. If a web site want to support HTTPS (also known as SSL or TLS), they need to have a certificate. The certificate is used as part […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sage Group, an international cloud based accounting, payroll, HR and CRM services company acknowledged a breach this week. The breach affects around 300 companies based in the U.K. but the value of the breach is not in who got breached, but rather the lessons to be learned from it. The company provides accounting and payroll […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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