In this age of digital advances most shared information is exposed to some kind of security threat. The growing number of data breach cases reported recently further illustrates this point. Despite this fact US millennials seem to easily trust businesses […]
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Do you know the password to your spouse’s bank or credit card accounts? According to a new report from Intel Security the answer is “No” for about 66 percent of you. Where exactly is the line between protecting your privacy
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President Obama had some bold proposals for strengthening cybersecurity in his State of the Union address. I think we can all agree that cyber attacks and cybercrime are a serious threat to national security, commerce, individual privacy, and more. The
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Privacy is important to everyone on some level. What we consider to be sensitive material, and where we draw the line varies from one individual to the next, but everyone has personal information they’d rather not share with the world
How much is your privacy worth to you? Read More »
It would be much more convenient if you could just walk into your house, or get into your car without having to first unlock the door. It would be more convenient if you could just walk from the front of
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Immediately after 9/11, the U.S. Congress cobbled together a bill called the USA Patriot Act, a grab bag of goodies the intelligence community had long craved. The intent was to remove limits in the gathering and use of intelligence on
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Who is responsible for securing your online financial activities, and protecting your data? Is it the online retailer or financial institution, or is it you? Perhaps a little of both? A new survey from Kaspersky Lab found that concerns are
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[inlinetweet prefix=”” tweeter=”” suffix=””][/inlinetweet] The aggressive “monitoring” by the US government is unwelcome in other nations. If foreign companies think that doing business with US companies means subjecting their data to the scrutiny of the US government, they’re likely to
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The Internet-of-Things (IoT) can do a lot of really cool stuff. We’re really only just starting to scratch the surface of the ways technology can simplify our lives, keep us informed, and make things more convenient. All of that comes
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Browsers have made great strides when it comes to being secure by default. Most apply updates automatically by default, and contain various features designed to detect phishing scams, and avoid insecure websites. Privacy is another matter entirely, though. To understand
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