Author: Al Berg

Using what we security experts call “crappy passwords” can be the first step in a journey to identity theft and…

Here is a great example of how international cooperation can make the Internet more secure for us all… the European…

Two factor authentication  is an important security tool; by using 2FA, an attacker get ahold of your user name and…

Just when you thought that the whole “globally readable Amazon S3 storage buckets” thing couldn’t get any worse, it did….

The train wreck that is Android security continues… A new strain of malware by security firm Wandera found in China…

I spend a lot of time telling people to use two factor authentication on their important web accounts.  This may…

I know I have been blathering on about insider threats lately, so let’s go to the other extreme – the…

Homeland Security Magazine has a very interesting case study on an insider threat case involving DirecTV.  In this case, the…

The rest of the world tends to look askance at the way that we here in the US handle airport…

Another reminder of the importance of managing third party vendor relationships… The Commodity Futures Trading Commission fined AMP Global Clearing…