HTTPS: The Myth of Secure Encrypted Traffic Exposed
The S in HTTPS is supposed to mean that encrypted traffic is secure. For attackers, it just means that they have a larger […]
Tag: Security
A New Google Chrome Extension Will Detect Your Unsafe Passwords
Data breaches that compromise people’s usernames and passwords have become so common, and used in crime for so long, that millions of […]
A Facebook Crackdown, Amazon Facial Recognition, and More Security News This Week
As happens infrequently—but definitely not never—Apple wrestled with an embarrassing and problematic security bug this week in its iOS FaceTime group calling […]
National pen test execution standard would improve network security
As the number of cyber attacks increases, the demand for penetration tests – to determine the strength of a company’s defense – […]
DARPA explores new computer architectures to fix security between systems
Solutions are needed to replace the archaic air-gapping of computers used to isolate and protect sensitive defense information, the U.S. Government has […]
Why Facebook’s Banned ‘Research’ App Was So Invasive
For the past three years, Facebook has paid consumers as young as 13 to download a “Facebook Research” application that gives the […]
Facebook Hires Up Three of Its Biggest Privacy Critics
For years, critics have taken aim at Facebook’s privacy missteps, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to this week’s revelation that Facebook has […]
Hackers Are Passing Around a Megaleak of 2.2 Billion Records
When hackers breached companies like Dropbox and LinkedIn in recent years—stealing 71 and 117 million passwords, respectively—they at least had the decency […]
How Secure Is Your Digital Super Bowl Experience?
Over the last few years I have traveled around the world, researching and watching stadiums digitally evolve from the structures I once […]
The Threat That the US Can’t Ignore: Itself
At its annual worldwide threat assessment hearing on Tuesday, top national security officials gave the Senate Intelligence Committee a rundown from top […]