I know many people who are religious about deleting their cookies and browser history in an effort to improve their online privacy. I know others who have carefully gone through all the security settings on their browsers, and social networking sites for the same reason. If this sounds like you, I have bad news.
I’ve been using Opera to browse the web, and trying out the ad-blocking feature and the location cloaking “VPN” ...
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2017 is promising to be another difficult year for cyber-defenders who are protecting company and government networks from attack. Here are what I think will be the top attack vectors this year.
US-CERT just released more information about the Grizzly Steppe cybercrime group who has been fingered for hacking the DNC and US voter registration databases. The short report, titled
I will start out by admitting that I hate Domain Privacy. But I just read a story in
Remember late last year when the Russian Cyber Army was supposedly hacking the Vermont electrical grid?
I read an interesting article on Naked Security the other day about how Hamas had used Facebook and social engineering tactics to trick Israeli soldiers into installing surveillance malware. The malware allowed Hamas to track the soldiers using the phone’s GPS, and to turn on the microphone and video to actually listen in and and watch their targets. Hamas undoubtedly picked up the ...
As a regular reader of this blog, you are probably using a long, unique, 20 character password with two-factor authentication, and a password manager to keep it all straight. But let’s say that you fall for a phishing scam, and give away the password to your email account. The attacker can now use your email account to request password reset emails from your other online accounts, and you have yourself one ...