Here are a couple of recent stories where a large information technology companies refused to turn over information to the government.
The first involves Apple, which was given a wiretap order to turn over certain communications between two alleged drug dealers on the iMessage platform. Apple wasn’t so much refusing to comply as pointing out that this messaging service is encrypted end to end, ...
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I am often asked by frustrated clients “Why doesn’t traditional anti-virus and Internet security software products work?” The unfortunate answer I have to give them is “It’s your fault.” The more diplomatic answer I really use is that the security software cannot prevent something that is explicitly allowed by the computer user. And the computer user is easily tricked into opening a ...
One of the goals of this website is to help small business owners and regular folks secure their digital world by providing useful information that can be put into practice. Today we are going to be looking at what sorts of digital assets need securing.
Let’s consider this post an early Sunday Funnies for this week. Every September 19th is Talk Like A Pirate Day, and this year it conveniently falls on Saturday, so grab your parrot and a keg of rum and let’s celebrate like its 1715.
According to the Official TLAP website.
Continue Reading →“Ever since Dave Barry mentioned us in his nationally syndicated newspaper ...
Back in August, presidential candidate Jeb Bush came out against encryption. Makes it too hard for law enforcement to figure out what the “evildoers” are up to, he says. I agree that encryption makes it impossible to figure out what the Wall Street executives who are funding every presidential campaign, by the way, are inventing now to ruin the American economy again and take a third trip into looting the 401K and ...
Since 2013, cyber-criminal gangs working from the Middle East, Africa, and eastern Europe have scammed businesses out of $1.2 billion dollars worldwide, with over 700 US businesses reporting $747 million in losses to this exploit. In 2015 alone there has been a 270% increase in losses to this scam. On August 28th, the FBI warned business owners and manager to be on ...
Now that football season has started, there will be a lot of discussion about why great defenses don’t win football games. Defense is not enough in the realm of cybersecurity, either. I recently attended a webinar put on by The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) featuring Mike Benkovich (@mbenko) that discussed this concept as it applied to the DevSecOps (or SecDevOps) or the secure development of web applications. It is not enough to write code that works, it also ...
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This is from Computerworld Shark Tank, which I read daily. These are funny stories about computer users from an IT perspective. Normally I have not shared these funny stories with my readers because this is a bit of IT “inside baseball.” Plus you might just recognize yourself in the story, and be offended, which I would like to avoid. But this one is too good not to share. ...
Today is the 14th anniversary of a day that I will never forget. I was driving home from dropping my son off at school, and listening to the radio when they started reporting that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. I made it home in time to see the second plane crash into the second tower on television. Still gives me chills as I write this.
Coincidentally, two ...
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Seems like everybody wants to run for President this year. Now John McAfee has entered the race. Yes the same McAfee that founded the McAfee security software company. Not saying he is my candidate, but this statement of his sums up exactly what is wrong with the NSA spying on everybody in order to save us for terrorists.
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