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.
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Sometime around April 3—give or take about a week—China’s 9.5-ton Tiangong-1 space station will fall out of orbit and enter Earth’s atmosphere. While media reports for the last few months have hyped the Continue Reading →
Which means we all get into our cars and spend the day driving in reverse? Not quite. What this means for some of your that today is the day you quit kicking that can down the road and set up a data backup for your systems. Hardware, software, cloud – pick your poison and set it up.
For those of you who are already using a backup solution, today would be ...
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What would it be like if you could identify yourself and authenticate your account by the way you type? A Romanian company, TypingDNA, has created a Chrome extension that does just that.
I am a big advocate of two-factor authentication, but there are some problems. One of the three types of authentication is biometrics, which is “something you are.” NIST, in SP 800-63B ...
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The problem with cybersecurity it that an attacker only needs to exploit a single vulnerability, while a defender needs to protect everything. Defense has evolved from perimeter defense, to defending all endpoints, to adding automated detection and prevention appliances, to universal threat management that looks at not just north/south traffic passing through the Internet gateway, but also east/west traffic across the LAN ...
Not funny, but an interesting account of the scuttled remains of the USS Lexington.
Article on Smithsonian.com
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A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.A tiny US company called Grayshift is reportedly quietly touting software it claims can unlock Apple’s flagship handsets, the iPhone X and 8.
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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