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 a ...
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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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Often when I am writing about cybersecurity, the situation seems worse than ever. But its not more dangerous than its ever been, it dangerous in ways that its never been.
A team of Israeli researchers have cataloged 29 different USB exploits and attacks. These attacks can come disguised as a smartphone charger connection, or may come hidden on a USB thumb drive. Plugging an ...
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In January we learned about a pair of cybersecurity vulnerabilities called Spectre and Meltdown. Discovered last summer by different security researchers, these vulnerabilities are proving difficult to mitigate because the problem exists in the way central processing units (CPUs) have been designed and manufactured. These processor cores are at the heart of all computer hardware, from PCs and servers, to ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Saint Patrick’s Day, or the Feast of Saint Patrick is a cultural and religious celebration held on 17 March, the traditional death date of Saint Patrick (c. AD 385–461), the foremost patron saint of Ireland.
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