Adobe’s Flash program has been a security nightmare. A favorite among malware writers for ages, Flash is useful for doing things like creating fake security pop-up alerts and conning computer users into buying security programs that don’t work and carry malicious content. And it seems that there is another “zero-day” vulnerability discovered every three days.
Do we really need Flash? No we don’t. iPhones and iPads ...
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If you or your company is still using Internet Explorer 10 or older versions of IE, then it is important that you move to IE11 (at a minimum) before January 12 2016. Microsoft will officially end support for browser products older than Internet Explorer 11. Many businesses are using older versions of IE to provide compatibility with older line-of-business and internal web applications. If you are not updating those ...
I am a big adherent of Gibb’s Rule 13, “Never, ever involve lawyers.” Unfortunately, if your business suffers a data breach, Rule 13 goes out the window. You will be sued. Count on it.
But here are some things that you should do to protect yourself and your business from the worst legal repercussions:
Hacktivism is an electronic form of civil disobedience. These cyber-attacks are instigated for reasons that are political, economic, or based in civil rights, liberty, freedom, or social justice. In nearly every case, these attacks are illegal. But does that make them a bad thing?
As the saying goes, “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter.” Looking back on our own national history, the men who we fondly refer to as ...
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There has been a running battle on the subject of copyright in the digital age, between content creators and their customers, the content consumers. The doctrine of Fair Use has protected consumers who engage in making copies of protected works for their own use or for backup purposes. The content creators and the companies and lawyers that serve them have been trying to reduce or restrict the doctrine of fair ...
Just received an email from WordFence, the WordPress security plugin-developer, that popular WordPress hosting company WPEngine had a breach that may have included customer user name and password information. The full text of the email I received follows.
Continue Reading →“We learned about an hour ago that there has been a data breach at WPEngine. Some of their customer login credentials have been exposed. ...
If you are involved in the management of a commercial bank, The Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) has developed a Cybersecurity Assessment Tool that was released in June 2015. As a cybersecurity practitioner who provides security audits, compliance audits, vulnerability scans, and penetration tests, I was encouraged to see another example of a federal government agency getting serious about improving cybersecurity ...
The Tor Project released the beta of their new Messenger app. This messenging client is based on Mozilla’s Instantbird, and works with several popular messaging platforms, including Facebook Chat, Twitter, Google Talk, and Jabber.
The encryption piece is handled using Tor’s OTR Protocol (for Off-The Record), and requires that users exchange a secret key. This is available in Windows, Linus, and OSX versions from the Tor website.
For more information:
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