Scandal engulfed popular videoconferencing software Zoom when its promise of providing end-to-end encryption (E2EE), turned out to be a lie. For years the Zoom client informed users that “Zoom...
Read moreResearchers shows most “flight-risk” employees planning to leave an organization tend to start stealing data two to eight weeks before they go. More than 80% of employees planning to...
Read moreAs COVID-19-themed spam rises, phishing-not so much. An analysis of newly registered domains finds that only 2.4% are actually phishing sites aiming to steal credentials. While many security firms...
Read moreBart Gellman on Snowden
May 20 2020Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, will finally be published in a couple of weeks....
Read moreThe Chrome browser will tell users if their browser is up to date, malicious extensions are installed, and/or a password has been compromised. Google has launched new security and...
Read moreCriminals and the Normalization of Masks
May 20 2020I was wondering about this: Masks that have made criminals stand apart long before bandanna-wearing robbers knocked over stagecoaches in the Old West and ski-masked bandits held up banks...
Read moreThe FBI has warned ecommerce sites about attacks targeting a more than three-year-old flaw in the Magmi mass importer. Cybercriminals operating under the Magecart umbrella group are exploiting an...
Read moreIn January 2019, dozens of media outlets raised the alarm about a new “megabreach” involving the release of some 773 million stolen usernames and passwords that was breathlessly labeled...
Read morePHP and JavaScript developers need to pay close attention because different languages and frameworks have different rates of vulnerability, research finds. The management of open source libraries poses a...
Read moreSecurity isn’t about tools or technology; it’s about establishing a broad, fundamental awareness and sense of responsibility among all employees. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided everyone a fresh lesson...
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