The Windows Bluekeep vulnerability was already bad. Now it's even worse.
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It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but it looks like the Attorney General (as well as law enforcement in general) doesn’t understand how encryption works. At a cybersecurity conference at Fordham University in late July Barr lamented the expanding presence of encryption. In the speech, Barr is trying to play […]
The Quest to Cripple Encryption
Facebook Study is a new (Android-only) way for Facebook to worm its way into your phone.
Facebook Study: New Name, Old Violations
The newest danger for cities isn't natural disasters, it's outdated software.
Forget Floods and Earthquakes – Ransomware Takes Out Cities
There’s been lots of pretty negative news coming out of Facebook over the past few years. I’ve only touched on a couple of things (smartphone privacy, social engineering), but it’s looking more and more like Facebook is either grossly incompetant or a bad actor when it comes to respecting their […]
Facebook: Dumb or Evil?
If you’ve been a computer user for any length of time, you’ve run across compressed files. In the old days, you’d have to download a separate program to be able to deal with these compressed files, at least on Windows. Thankfully, current versions of Windows now come with the ability […]
WinRAR Vulnerability Leaves Millions of Users at Risk
It’s no secret that online security is more important now than it was a decade ago. One of my own personal pet peeves, though, is the constant use of very bad password practices that are used by lots of people (me included)! Password Safety It’s become fairly common knowledge that […]
Password Security Is No Joke
While it’s pretty commonly known that the Google Play store is much less restrictive than the iOS App Store, it’s worth realizing that while that does make Android potentially more flexible, it also means users have a much great responsibility to ensure protection of their own data. Whether or not […]