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]According to USA Today and the NY Times, Verizon has announced that it will allow users to opt out of their super-cookie program “soon”. You may remember that both Verizon and AT&T were caught adding a unique tracking identifier into all web page requests last year as customers were using programs such as ad blocker […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone knows that the Sony breach was different than, say, the Target or Home Depot breach because of the damage that Sony is still, 10 weeks later, trying to recover from. But now, the insurance experts are adding yet another wrinkle – thanks Sony. According to the Hartford Courant, Sony may break new ground in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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 […]
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