In 25 years working in radio, there’s one piece of advice I heard early and often: if you see a microphone, you should always assume it is ‘live’. The same should probably go for webcams. The news today that a Russian website has been discovered which aggregates the feeds from over 4500 cameras worldwide has […]
54% of US firms now employ some form of cloud computing, but there is a huge variation among IT managers when it comes to awareness of the security issues associated with cloud computing, and how to address them. Here’s a recent infographic compiled by Dell which presents some recent research on attitudes and awareness among IT […]
dearest one, I than good for sedning you to me and i pray this enrteprise will be to our mutual benfiot … We’ve all got them: scam emails, 419 Nigerian frauds (although they come from other countries as well), phishing, advance fee fraud. One of my Facebook friends recently shared an email he had received, remarking that, if it […]
Paddy Power, the bookmaker, has written to almost 650,000 users of its online service advising them that their personal data was breached in a malicious incident in 2010. They say that they had been satisfied at the time that “no financial information or customer passwords had been put at risk” and they did not make the incident public on […]
If you’re concerned about mobile security, then you might want to spend $629 on a phone designed with security in mind. Blackphone is a joint venture between phone manufacturer Geeksphone and the cryptographic service Silent Circle. Announced in January, it has begun shipping this week. Blackphone uses a custom version of Android its developers call […]
There’s been a HUGE amount of media coverage of the Heartbleed vulnerability in OpenSSL this week and advice for users has been very mixed and at times quite confusing and even contradictory. Venturebeat published this graphic yesterday based on a Mashable article with a nice visual (via) of some of the affected (and unaffected) sites […]
Our guest on today’s podcast (33:05; 19MB; MP3) is Neal O’Farrell, an internationally recognised expert in fraud and personal security, who has spent over 30 years working on security issues in Ireland, the UK and now in the US, where is the founder and Executive Director of The Identity Theft Council, an organisation which … … […]
If you got an email from Twitter last night informing you that your account password has been reset, you might be one of approximately 1% of Twitter users whose passwords were reset in error. Or there might have been in response to a genuine attempt to compromise your account. There’s no way to know! Re/code […]
I don’t know about you, but I’m befuddled in the extreme, listening to half-revealed statements about Wi-Fi devices and IMSI catchers being lobbed about in the media like they are conclusive proof of anything at all. So I Skyped security expert Brian Honan of BH Consulting to see what he made of it all. Our […]
If large scale computer virus epidemics seem like a thing of the past, it’s only because we’ve learned the lessons of vigilance. Software updates, firewalls and anti-virus mean that outbreaks on the scale of these five are rarely seen nowadays, but it’s worth reminding ourselves why we can’t relax about security. To err is human, […]
