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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...
I was recently introduced to a personal cybersecurity service called Rubica. If you are looking for a company that can provide you and your family or your small business with the kind of cybersecurity operations that are available to larger companies, this may be for you.
A bad day for me starts with a client calling to say, “I was hacked,” or to hear that they have fallen ...
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It is widely believed that Satoshi Nakamoto is the inventor of an encryption technique called “blockchain.” I just read a new book by Sarah Westall titled “FIRST: Meet the Inventor of Blockchain” that credits Dr Kelce Wilson as the true inventor of blockchain, a concept he developed between 2000 and 2001 while serving ...
When a smartphone is stolen, it is a disaster. You have just given the keys to your online life, your email, social media accounts, and credit cards you have synced with an app. If you have the new smart locks on your home or office, you also gave them literal keys, the ability to open those locks. If you have live camera ...
Toward the end of last year I made a pair of bold predictions. The first, that ransomware exploits would start declining, because anti-malware software companies were bringing products online that would prevent the encryption from taking place. The second, there would be an increase in Business Email Compromise (BEC) exploits, as cyber-criminals turned to new income streams. I was only half right.
BEC exploits have increased, because the potential returns are ...
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