Category: Security

Nov 19, 2015

Lots of Security Flaws in LastPass Password Manager

It’s been a bad couple of years for the popular password manager LastPass. Last year two security engineers were able

Nov 18, 2015

Encryption is your Friend. Google Agrees.

Forget the discussions about building backdoors into encryption schemes. Encryption is your friend and will protect the data once you’ve

Nov 17, 2015

Really? Apple Not the Ultimate Security Environment

Shocker, but it is what it is. Apple would like you to believe that its products are the most secure

Nov 10, 2015

Ransomware Steps Up the Game

As if it wasn’t bad enough that ransomware encrypted your data, now the infections are also encrypting the file names.

Nov 03, 2015

Apple’s iOS is Pwnd

Security startup company Zerodium announced that it will pay the $1 million bounty to the team that successfully develops a

Nov 02, 2015

Free Ransomware Decryption Keys

There’s good news if you have been infected by CoinVault and Bitcryptor ransomware. Kaspersky Lab has distributed a decryption application

Oct 27, 2015

Be Afraid of Square – Be Very Afraid

I have never been a big fan of Square, the credit card processing gizmo that attaches to your phone. In

Oct 26, 2015

Facebook Lets Anyone Search Your Posts

I’ve said it many times. Facebook is evil. It is a master of adding and changing features that impact your

Oct 22, 2015

Western Digital Encryption Doesn’t Protect Your Data

It was not a good day for Western Digital when a team of academics published a paper showing how poor

Oct 14, 2015

Mass Exodus from LastPass?

The latest news that LogMeIn has acquired LastPass has created a huge cry for alternative password managers. Should you feel

Oct 12, 2015

The Death of LastPass?

LogMeIn has announced that it is acquiring LastPass for $110M. Acquisitions sometimes go south. There are many examples of the

Oct 01, 2015

WinRAR Bug Puts Around 500 Million Users at Risk

Most users are aware of the Zip file format that can create a compressed archive of files/folders. File archiving became