Biometrics give a false sense of security. On Sept 23, 2015, Office of Personnel Management (OPM) revised the number of stolen fingerprint files to 5.6 million! Why should you care? Some security pundits believe that biometrics are far more secure than passwords. They...
By Microsoft, the FBI, Europol and industry partners. It’s about Time! In the past I have written many blogs about how software companies and OS developers need to start taking security more seriously. While Microsoft has been a focus of mine, it...
Salted Hash – The one-way encryption for password security. Ok, I’m not talking about that potato hash you love with your eggs. I am talking about the encryption hash that needs to be used to safeguard computer data files like passwords....
87% of all business owners who seriously inquire about Power LogOn® end up buying it. Before I go into why, here are some new findings from Javelin Strategy & Research’s latest report 2013 Identity Fraud Report: Data Breaches Becoming a Treasure Trove...
An SEO Cyber Mule or SEO Hack is when unauthorized links are embedded into your website without your knowledge for the sole purpose of increasing Google rankings. For Google to increase a site rankings they look for the number of one-way backlinks. That’s why...
When it comes to cyber authentication, the weakest link is the user. Cyber authentication is a hot topic in today’s world of Malware, Cyber Warfare, BYOD, Cloud Computing and Hackers. In a recent Google Password Management blog, “Google Password...
USB Smart Card Readers for Network Access Authentication are Still Safe. A number of online computer news sites are abuzz about a security team’s prototype malware that hijacks USB smart card readers. It seems that a research team out of Luxembourg has issues a...
Security breach exposes roughly 100,000 IEEE members’ User IDs and Passwords On Sept. 24 2012 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) confirmed that nearly 100,000 of its members User Names and Passwords were publicly exposed from a...
They Are Just Drawn That Way Paraphrasing a line from Jessica Rabbit from the movie Roger Rabbit seems the appropriate comment from Geoffrey A. Fowler’s article “What’s a Company’s Biggest Security Risk? You.” Hence the headline:...
8.24 Million Passwords and User Names stolen and posted by hackers. If you use the online gaming site Gamigo, if your user name was your email address and you use the same password elsewhere then you need to be very, very concerned. Cyber criminals will now...