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Is SSL Broken

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 […]

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Your Home Internet Router May Have Caused the Xbox-Playstation Outage On Christmas Day

I have been meaning to write about this for a week now, but a conversation I had last night with a security-geek friend (thanks, Tim!) allows me to combine two posts.  Happy Friday! First, the subject line.  Lizard Squad, the group that claimed responsibility for shutting down the Microsoft xBox and Sony Playstation networks on […]

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Justice Department Continues Push To Get Rid Of Encryption

The Justice Department continues to push for the ability to bypass encryption (see here). Leslie Caldwell, one of the assistant AGs said that the DoJ is very concerned that Apple and Google have turned on encryption by default.  I guess that must point to the fact that if people have to do something to turn […]

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