Today, some of the most advanced malware is used only a few times for very targeted attacks rather than the mass attacks of the past. In the past, the idea was to flood the networks with enough infected files that […]
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Am I the only one finding the recent upsurge in hotel data breaches troubling on some primal level? You’re in a vulnerable position as a traveler, and you want to believe that the suite you’ve booked is your castle. And
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With every new data breach, the digital citizenry becomes more aware that online activities aren’t necessarily private or secure. Whether you’re an adult looking for undercover dalliances on Ashley Madison or a child playing games online with VTech digital learning
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2015 was quite a year! Hacks and ransomware got personal. APT attacks and cybercrime-as-a service became widespread. The scary future of IoT hacking became a reality with the demonstration of self-driving car hacks. And, a new threat vector of mobile devices
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The US government and law enforcement agencies want to make sure terrorists and criminals can’t hide behind encryption. The solution, apparently, is to try and force vendors to build backdoors through the encryption. The problem with that “solution” is that
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This month the Obama administration sent its big guns to Silicon Valley in an effort to get the computer makers to open up back doors in their systems so that law enforcement could more easily gain access to data. Tim
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There has been increasing demand from government and law enforcement in recent months for some sort of encryption backdoor. The theory–whether grounded in reality or not–is that an encryption backdoor will allow intelligence agencies to detect and prevent more terrorist
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Account takeovers are increasingly affecting a growing population of online user accounts due to a confluence of threats, such as weak consumer password practices, frequent mass data breaches and brute force attacks against web properties. The scope, scale and frequency
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It is more apparent with each passing year that there is simply no way to ensure a PC or mobile device can’t be compromised. Rather than focusing on the Quixotic goal of making devices invulnerable, you should instead ensure that
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As most families come down off of the exhilaration of Christmas and New Year’s and pack up the holiday decorations for another year, it’s important not to let your guard down when it comes to security. The bad guys still
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