Last week the SEC released what they call a Risk Alert to Investment Advisors and Broker-Dealers saying that they were concerned about the protection of client information because of recent attacks and attempted attacks against the financial community. In the alert, they laid out the very particular concerns they have in 6 specific areas and […]
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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In a classic TSA response, the TSA says that this is no big deal. First, here is what they said in 2003 when they introduced them: TSA official Ken Lauterstein described them as part of the agency’s efforts to develop “practical solutions that contribute toward our goal of providing world-class security and world-class customer service.” Now, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]D-Link makes a variety of network equipment, both for home and business users. They release the software for this equipment, for the most part, as open source software. This allows techie users to review the code to see if it does anything bad and since the software is useless unless you bought the hardware, there […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ARS Technica wrote a piece on the continuing security flaw with password managers like LastPass and KeePass on Android. Technically, the problem is an Android problem, but from the user’s standpoint they don’t really care. The problem is tools like LastPass and many others use the Android clipboard to automatically log you on to a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI released a warning this week regarding the Internet of Things security, which is pretty unusual. As a result, a lot of digital ink has been used up writing about it. I will use up a little more digital ink. What is unusual is the FBI warning doesn’t mention any particular issue – it […]
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