Did you know that most traffic across the Internet travels in an unencrypted state. And when you make an open wireless connection in a coffee bar or other public location, the radio connection is unsecured and unencrypted, too. This traffic travels as plain text, and can be read by anyone with the skills to intercept the traffic and open the data packets.
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I recently read an article from Heimdal Security about online safety. In this article Heimdal had asked 18 experts in the field of cybersecurity for their top 3 ideas about how to stay secure. The contributors included top cybersecurity professionals from several anti-malware companies, security bloggers, and cybersecurity industry professionals. The original article is here.
What I found interesting were the ...
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One of the major attractions of Bitcoin, Etherium, Monero and other crypto-currencies has been the ability to keep your transactions anonymous, away from the prying eyes of governments, law enforcement agencies, and anyone else. A recent ruling in a federal district court in California will change that.
The court ordered popular crypto-currency exchange and wallet service Coinbase to turn over records on more than ...
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A two-part Frontline documentary on PBS titled Putin’s Revenge examines the rise to power of an obscure ex-KGB agent named Vladimir Putin and the tactics he used to influence the last U.S. Presidential Election. Evidence would indicate that Putin prefers Republics to Democrats. Worth a look. Live stream them here.
Let’s say you have finally committed to creating new, unique, and long passwords for all your online, network, business, and machine user accounts. How are you going to keep track of the dozens, if not hundreds of uniquely different passwords? Using a system makes your passwords guessable, and writing them down in a spiral notebook is a hassle, and makes your ...
On Wednesday, we looked at the built-in password manager provided by Google Smart Lock. Today we will review Apple’s iCloud Keychain. Keychain works automatically with iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and is shared an updated to all your devices automatically. Most of the Apple users I talk to are familiar with Keychain. Keychain works with devices that are using ...
Over the last four posts, we have focused on the US-CERT alert, but cybersecurity firm Symantec has actually been working this case since 2011. Their report on Dragonfly can be found on their website. While they are cautous when providing attribution, reading between the lines indicates that Dragonfly is probably a Russian based group, possibly working on behalf ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Tech company Gravity Payments instituted a $70 K minimum wage two years ago. It has long been my personal contention that the drop in real starting wages (against inflation) coupled with crushing ...
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We haven’t looked at the sorry state of hotel security for a while, but we have done articles on hotel locks, and hotel business center computers before. The Naked Security blog recently published a story about the Russian hacker collective known as Fancy Bear, and their involvement in the use of the leaked NSA exploit Eternal ...
