What do Heartbleed, Shellshock and Poodle all have in common? Well apart from being software vulnerabilities discovered in 2014, they were all found in pre-built software components, used by developers…
DetailsWe all know what multi-factor authentication is. Typically, it involves two of three classes of authentication; (1) something you know (a password or passphrase); (2) something you have (a token…
DetailsWhen Doctor Craig Spencer returned from West Africa to New York, having treated Ebola patients while wearing protective gear and being asymptomatic and non-infectious, he engaged in a rigorous course…
DetailsI’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. Cops lie. They are allowed to. In the course of conducting investigations, they can go undercover, pretend to be other people,…
DetailsThe holiday season is filled with opportunities for the Bad Guys to take advantage of people who are filled with the holiday spirit, out and about having a good time…
DetailsAnother industry alliance joined the chorus urging businesses that process debit and credit cards to implement EMV payment chip technology to combat fraud. EMV stands for Europay, MasterCard® and Visa®, the…
DetailsFor those contemplating using Amazon Web Services (AWS), their compliance page is quite assuring. With a who’s who of compliance standards from SSAE-16, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, to CSA, MPAA,…
DetailsFBI Director Comey complained about the problem of people, “going dark,” in a speech before the Brookings Institution on October 16, 2014. He explained, “the law hasn’t kept pace with technology, and…
DetailsIt’s a fact of life that most IT shops have, to one degree or another, a “security products graveyard” – i.e. security technology that’s past its prime, performing poorly, or…
DetailsA terrorist assaults the Canadian Parliament, and is shot dead. Police, fearing a Mumbai-style mass attack, seize the gunman’s cell phone to look for contacts, communications, text messages, or other…
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