Month: March 2019

Grindr and US national security

Here’s an interesting development…the US federal agency which reviews foreign investments in US companies has ordered a Chinese firm to sell its stake in gay…

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Bad biometrics: Samsung’s new S10 phone

When biometrics work properly, they can provide you with an easy to use security solution with a reasonable level of assurance for most types of…

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Time to end the cloud-o-phobia

Sorry, but I felt no need to purchase a monocle so I could have it pop out of my eye in horror/dismay/astonishment when I read…

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Security risks from domain typo squatters

One of the ways that hackers get users to click on malicious links or believe false emails is to use domains that look like, but…

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Comcast assigned every mobile customer the same unchangeable PIN to protect against SIM hijack attacks: 0000

If someone wants to steal your phone number — say, to intercept the two-factor authentication SMSes needed to break into your bank account or other…

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The war we try to ignore

As information security professionals, our goal is to protect information against attacks on confidentiality, integrity and availability. Today, I want to talk about integrity of…

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