Category: privacy

Good privacy advice from the US DoD

The US Department of Defense has put out a nifty guide on how to protect your privacy on social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram,…

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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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Malicious data leaks and corporate liability – a tale of two countries

Databreaches.net had a link to a very interesting article about corporate liability for an employee’s malicious leaking of employee information.  What was most striking to…

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No, you don’t need to close your LastPass account…

Yesterday, at ShmooCon, security researcher Sean Cassidy announced a vulnerability in the popular LastPass password manager.  He demonstrated a way that an attacker could send…

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In DPRK, Linux Watches You

A presentation from this past week’s Chaos Computer Congress shows how totalitarian states (like, in this case, North Korea) can leverage open source software in…

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attackers are doing their homework – are you?

Some spear phishing wisdom from Security BSides SFO today… Rohyt Belani of PhishMe told an interesting story highlighting just how much research attackers do when…

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it’s not always nice to share

From the department of things that should be common sense, but are not… it is not safe to put confidential data on cloud based file…

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location based validation of card transactions and more?

An interesting idea from Visa (of credit card fame) over in Europe… using card members’ mobile phones as location based tokens to verify credit card…

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this conversation may be recorded, just cause i wanna…

From the US Federal Courts (via ThreatLevel)… it turns out that recording a conversation on your iPhone (and I assume any other device capable of…

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