Have you ever wondered what happens to the location information your smartphone is collecting about you? Who has access to that information, and for what purpose? As it turns out, as told in a recent report by Brian Krebs, this information is available to pretty much anybody.
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IoT or the Internet of Things has been to this point a seriously unsecured cluster-flop for the most part. Millions of insecure devices are in our homes and businesses, and these devices may be eavesdropped, recording audio or video, performing a DDoS attack, or being leveraged as an easy access pivot point into your network for further exploitation
Thankfully, progress is being made ...
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The latest trend in the card payment universe are the mobile payment apps that let you use a smart watch or smartphone in place of a credit card. Just how secure are these payment systems? One of my regular readers, Eric Morley, owner of Big Frog Custom T-Shirts in Woodbury, MN, asked me that question via LinkedIn, and I thought it was a great idea for an ...
Fighting cyber-crime is a lot like whack-a-mole. By the time cyber-defenders come up with countermeasures that work against one exploit, the cyber-criminals have moved on to another different and more profitable exploit. Old malware is updated with new versions, and the new versions often slide right by the same defenses that stopped the old version.
Cyber-crime has moved from spamming, fake anti-virus, credit card fraud, and “Canadian” pharmaceuticals, to password cracking, ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.01/29/2018 08:27 AM EST Original release date: January 29, 2018
Tax Identity Theft Awareness Week is January ...
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The most devastating exploit that can happen to you is to have your email account hijacked. We have spilled a lot of pixels on this subject (see below). The reason we find this so dangerous is that it is that this is the attack most likely to happen to you.
Google recently released a study that analyzed how Gmail accounts are hijacked. If you have an Android smartphone, you have a ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Google removed 60 games that contained code to display porn pop-ups and other malicious activities. Click through to see list of bad apps. If you installed any of them, you will need to remove these yourself.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Yale Privacy Lab has discovered hidden trackers in hundreds of popular Android apps that send app manufacturers your location, activity, and other personal info.
That Bluetooth Cayla doll and i-Que surveillance robot can be ...
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We are advocates of using a password manager to create, manage, and securely store the dozens (or hundreds) of unique and long passwords that we need to be using these days. For many people, password managers can seem difficult to set up and a bit of a hassle to use. The good news its that there are two easy and built-in alternatives, ...
