Month: July 2013

what’s your personal data worth?

You might be surprised by how valuable your personal information is to cyber-criminals.  This article from Dark Reading contains a menu of stolen credentials along…

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japan cloud oopsie reveals confidential treaty data

A cautionary tale of cloud computing… apparently, a Google Groups group set up by the Japanese Ministry of the Environment to (internally) share documents and…

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sometimes the “it department” isn’t the it department

For your social engineering reading pleasure…  the take aways?  First, operational security is important – this scam worked (at least for a while) because the…

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another android vuln allows malicious code injection

Another day, another Android vulnerability which allows malicious actors to inject malicious code into Android applications without triggering cryptographic safeguards.   And another reason to…

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more details – microsoft’s deal with the nsa

This article from the Guardian claims that our friends in Redmond are cooperating with the NSA to give the spying agency access to all sorts…

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creepy but effective belgian internet safety psa

Via Gizmodo

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