Here is a really, really simple tip for you to reduce (not eliminate) your exposure to credit card fraud. This is for you as a credit card user – not as a business accepting credit cards. I use it and I can tell you from personal experience, it works. Most banks offer the option to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Times is reporting that the NSA has been inside North Korea’s network since 2010 and that is how they knew that the Sony attack came from North Korea. Hopefully, this is one NSA spying activity that no one in the U.S. is going to complain about. The Times article said that North […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let me start with a few caveats. This is based on hacked and published passwords, so it may or may not represent the overall use of passwords. Splashdata also makes a password manager application, so they have a vested interest in the story. STILL….. The top password is no long password. It is now 123456 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]How many times have you seen computer experts telling you that they have the secret solution to making your computers secure? I don’t know how many I have seen, but it is a lot. There is, no doubt, some truth in each of these lists, but for everyone, the solution is a little different. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]PC World and others are reporting that Turn, the advertising group that I wrote about a few days ago, will stop using Verizon’s unique identifier to target advertising to Verizon customers in early February. The practice, which is completely legal, lets Turn track every web page a Verizon customer visits, even if they delete their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written before about law enforcement’s creative use of technology to capture bad guys. The prior article talked about putting cameras on utility poles and intercepting cell phone traffic, both without a warrant. Today’s story, in USA Today, talks about the FBI, Marshall Service and U.S. Marshal’s use of a type of radar that […]
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