If you either use credit cards or are a merchant that accepts credit cards (I think that covers most of us), your world is changing and changing rapidly. Sorry, this is going to be long, so you might want to get a cup of coffee and possibly some aspirin before you start reading. First, if […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]TrueCrypt users panicked last year when the developers of the very popular semi-open source encryption program stopped supporting the product and issued a warning to users not to trust it. An independent group solicited donations and paid for an independent audit of the source code to TrueCrypt version 7.1a. Well, the audit is in and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Too many attacks to write about individually, so I am just going to write a short blurb on each with a link. Oh, My! British Airways – hackers accessed “tens of thousands” of frequent flyer accounts forcing BA to lock down the system, denying users access to the system and requesting that they change their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported on the process that the U.S. Federal Government, and more specifically, the Intelligence Community, uses to decide when to keep bugs secret and use them against systems they want to attack and when to reveal them to the vendors to fix. The bugs, known as zero days or O Days, are ones that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember when you bought that phone or USB cable at Radio shack and they asked for your name and email address? CBS is reporting that Radio Shack listed that as an asset in their bankruptcy and has put it up for sale. That means your name, address, phone number and purchase information is up for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNet wrote about a man who was arrested at the Halifax (Canada) airport for refusing to hand over the passcode for his cellphone to the Canadian border agents. Even if you are not paranoid, it should make you think about what gadgets you take across the border. Here are some details of this case. He […]
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