Data breaches aren’t inevitable
A white paper issued this week by the SANS Institute says there are proven techniques in use today by large […]
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Companies may try to bypass GDPR fines by negotiating with cybercriminals
Europol, the EU’s policing agency, released a report on September 18 in which they warned that EU data protection laws may […]
French cyber-security agency open-sources CLIP OS, a security hardened OS
The National Cybersecurity Agency of France, also known as ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information), has open-sourced […]
Fitbit-based life insurance is a potential privacy and security nightmare
John Hancock is the first US insurance company to ditch traditional life insurance policies entirely in favor of “interactive life […]
Managing a data hack: the dos and don’ts
Panic is not an effective data security tool. When your company’s defences have been breached and your confidential information is […]
Printing, document capture and compliance risk in the GDPR era
Printers, scanners and mobile devices that capture data from documents all store data in some way or other. How can […]
Apple will replace TouchID with FaceID
The new iPhones announced on Wednesday, the iPhone XS, the XS Max, and the XR, only use FaceID, TouchID’s heir […]
Government Hacking Makes Everyone Less Safe
Security experts almost uniformly agree that it is dangerous to design encryption to ensure investigators can have access to everything. […]
Worries arise about security of new WebAuthn protocol
A team of security researchers has raised the alarm about some cryptography-related issues with the newly released WebAuthn passwordless authentication […]
Google Chrome’s New Password Trick Makes Your Accounts More Secure
Google and other tech companies have been on a mission to kill passwords. It’s easy enough to see why. We […]
Is Blockchain The Answer To A Better Healthcare Industry?
The traditional systems that are being used in healthcare today are woefully lacking in the security that could be available. […]
Apple Removes Top Security App For Stealing Data and Sending it to China
Apple has removed the #1 selling anti-malware app called Adware Doctor from the Mac App Store because it was gathering […]