We have more attorneys per person in America than any other country on the planet. This causes problems, because there are too many attorneys chasing too few ambulances, and not enough real attorney work to go around. It has long been my contention that the attorneys we elect to public office, in the Legislatures, Courts, and Executive branches of our governments are the ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.In June 2015, a British boy named Kane Gamble—who was 15 years old then—targeted CIA heads and FBI directors and ...
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When web bots attack, what websites are the most likely to targets? We discussed automated attacks against websites last month. Here is some new information from Distil Networks about who the main targets have been in the recent past. If your business is included in the following list, you may want to ramp up the security posture of your website and web hosting account.
The industries ...
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We all understand that HTTPS site are “secure” and HTTP sites are not. Google has been urging web site owners and managers to covert their plain HTTP sites to HTTPS for several years now, as part of an industry wide plan to use encryption in more places. Coming by July 18 of this year, Google’s browser Chrome version 68 will be flagging ...
Firefox 59, the latest version of Mozilla’s popular web browser, has several privacy and security improvements that users may be interested in. Our standard recommendation is always to use the newest browser versions, so upgrading to Firefox 59 should be a no-brainer.
Firefox 59 had added an option to block the most serious privacy concerns in a new Settings menu. You can find the available options by opening the Settings menu (the “stack ...
Continue Reading →A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Great story about dealing with creative content pirates on the Internet.
Great article from the Smithsonian takes a ...
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In the aftermath of the story about Cambridge Analytica violating the privacy of Facebook users, Facebook has announced plans to centralize and streamline the tortuous task of managing your privacy and security settings.
These changes are important, but actually do not solve the root problem, which is Facebook’s rather laissez-faire manner of managing app developers and data integrators who use the Facebook platform.
The promised improvements are:
In the aftermath of the recent stories about how the personal information of 50 million Facebook users was acquired and misused by the Trump Presidential campaign, many people are wondering whether they should delete their Facebook account. Others are just looking to see how they can more tightly secure their Facebook account from this sort of abuse. Fortunately, securing Facebook is relatively easy.
The early bird gets the worm. The second mouse gets the cheese. The late tax filer gets nothing. Why? April is tax fraud time. The best way to avoid losing your tax refund to a scammer is to file as early as possible, before the tax fraudster can get it done. Having said that, this information would be more valuable in January than in April. From US-CERT.
