Here is a great example of why users have to demand that developers up their cyber security game. Unless the developers make smart security choices, we will continue to make life easy for hackers. The examples on how web sites handle passwords described below should make this point clear. Don’t ever store passwords in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Notice I said REDUCE, not ELIMINATE. J.D. Wetherspoon is a British restaurant chain that was hacked and compromised information on about 650,000 customers. Although the information was stolen in June 2015, the breach was not discovered until December 2015. While the data was not terribly sensitive (very few credit card numbers; mostly name, email address, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Intercept wrote about this issue – which is not new – and then Ars Technica wrote about it more accurately. This is not a devious plot to steal your junk (even though it could be used to do that) but rather an effort to have you not want to fly out to Redmond and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So first, the headline is accurate. But second, you can do anything with statistics, so not so fast fella (or in this case, lady). SC Magazine did name OS X the most vulnerable software of 2015, but that is only because of the way they calculate the numbers. The numbers are based on the public […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Update – After all of the press coverage showing the weakness in Paypal’s security, Paypal issued a press release saying they were sorry and that Brian Krebs’ funds were secure. Paypal says they are going to investigate what happened. Read details here. Brian Krebs discovered the hard way that Paypal is not the most secure […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If the US is anything like Europe, you can expect that “Card Not Present” or CNP fraud will increase significantly in 2016. We will have to wait and see, but some things are likely. Chip and signature – the alternative to chip and PIN that most US banks and almost no international banks chose – […]
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