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Biometrics Not Really Secure

Two-factor and multi-factor authentication are becoming more important and more available as we struggle to secure our information from attackers. These factors are something you know, something you have, and something you are. Biometrics (something you are) are one of the three factors used in computer, network, and application authentication.

Biometrics include thumbprint or fingerprint readers, palm scanners, iris and retinal scanners, facial recognition, speech recognition, and even arcane systems that detect ...

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Arrrgh Matey – It’s Talk Like A Pirate Day

This is one of my favorite unofficial holidays (the other being Sys Admin Day). Here is a link to the official website. Looks like there is a tee-shirt available. Actually, there is quite a bit of cool pirate swag, so check it out.

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Onliner Spambot Uses List of 711 Million Email Accounts

Is your email address one of the 711 million emails that are being used by the Onliner spam-bot? I checked my email address at Have I Been Pwned and found it on the list. You can click through the link and see if yours is on the Onliner list, or part of some other breach.

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Banking Trojan

Sunday Funnies – The Crash at Crush

Rail fans, this story from the Smithsonian Magazine is a great yarn about how a marketing stunt gone wrong turned out to be one of the great railroad marketing schemes of all time.

George Crush had two steam locomotives crash into each other at 50 miles per hour, while 40,000 spectators watched. What could possibly go wrong? Read the full story at the link above.

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Talk Like A Pirate Day Coming on September 19

We will start with the good stuff for a change. Talk Like A Pirate Day is my second favorite unofficial Holiday. Check out the official website. Check out the cool pirate swag and order yourself a pirate hoodie or tee shirt.

Arrrgh!

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WireX Turns Android Phones into DDoS Botnet

WireX is a new botnet that runs on hijacked and compromised Android phones. A bot-net is a collection of compromised devices that can be coordinated by the hijacker to work together on a certain task. It might be bit-coin mining, or password cracking, or other tasks that require a lot of processing power. This bot-net, like last year’s Mirai ...

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DDoS

Sharing Your Boarding Pass Is A Bad Idea

Last Friday we covered some of the security issues travelers can face when staying at a hotel. Today we are going to look at air travel – specifically the bad things that can happen to you if you carelessly discard or foolishly post a picture online of your airline boarding pass.

For some reason, people like to post images of their boarding passes ...

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What You Can Do After The Equifax Breach

The Equifax breach has been all over the news this weekend, and it should be. This is worse than they are telling us. It most certainly DOES affect you, if you are adult and have ever purchased a car or opened a credit card account. Don’t wait to be told you are a victim. Assume you are a victim.

In a world where we are all suffering from “breach fatigue,” having suffered through dozens if not hundreds of these revelations about ...

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