While every single bank and ecommerce provider tells you that SSL (or HTTPS) is wonderful and fully protects you, unless they are on drugs, they don’t really believe that. From their perspective, the risk is manageable and they would rather reimburse you if you can prove their SSL connection leaked AND cost you money than […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The news is reporting that a nanny in Houston said that she heard voices coming from the baby monitor while she was changing her baby’s diaper last week. Apparently, someone was watching them and talking to them over the built in speaker in the baby monitor. That speaker is designed so that the parents, using […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dark Reading is reporting that the NFL mobile app has a few problems in it – not so much different than NFL officiating. Wandera performed a scan of the app and discovered that after a successful login, the app leaks your credentials in an unencrypted API call. In addition, it leaks your login name and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Redmond Mag is reporting that AV-Test has ranked 28 Anti Virus software products against 153 pieces of zero day (meaning previously unknown) and 12,000+ pieces of known malware. AV-Test, based in Germany, has gotten sideways with Microsoft before. Microsoft has come in ranked very low on their tests several times. Microsoft says that the firm ranks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA released a 5 page document last week on keeping malware out of your network. 5 pages with links to hundreds of pages of other NSA documents. It would probably take a year just to read and absorb them. Then you have to deal with implementing the suggestions. Some are simple, some are hard. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is a really, really simple tip for you to reduce (not eliminate) your exposure to credit card fraud. This is for you as a credit card user – not as a business accepting credit cards. I use it and I can tell you from personal experience, it works. Most banks offer the option to […]
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