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Radio Shack Puts Its Customer Database Up For Sale

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 […]

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Man Arrested At Border For Refusing To Hand Over Phone Passcode

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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Researchers Find 600,000 Servers Use Duplicate Encryption Key

PC World is reporting that researchers, looking for servers that were susceptible to the FREAK attack, found that some manufacturers have taken a shortcut when it comes to security. First, FREAK is an attack that allows attackers to force a encryption session between a user and a server to use a very weak 512 bit […]

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Ransonware Going After Small Business and Gamers

Dark Reading is reporting that due to the success of Ransomware, the sophistication of the attacks is growing.  As a reminder, ransomware infects a computer and encrypts the files on it.  If you pay the ransom, the attacker will usually give you the key to decrypt your files.  Ransonware is not very particular and can […]

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