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Five Recommendations for Protection Against Advanced Hacking Attacks The first I ever heard of the WhatsApp mobile messaging app was a couple of months ago, when a friend told me she had downloaded it. Two days later, I began getting messages in my inbox telling me that I had voicemail on WhatsApp. Obviously it was […]

Five Recommendations for Protection Against Advanced Hacking Attacks It’s been a while since I’ve talked about Adobe-related security problems, but Adobe security was in the news at the end of last week with the announcement of a major breach. According to Computerworld, nearly 3 million customer accounts were breached and source code was also stolen. […]

Must-Know Facts Every Mobile User Should Know About Security In September, the Information Security Forum (ISF) released a report, “Managing BYOD Risk: Staying Ahead of Your Mobile Workforce,” which found that many companies, in their rush to institute some kind of BYOD security policy, often neglected or rushed risk management. Incomplete or ineffective policies in […]

IT Plays Catch-up with Cloud Application Security Mixed signals about the cloud and security abound. A private cloud is more secure than a public cloud, for instance, but most experts would advise against storing critical data in any type of cloud format. And like anything to do with data security, the cloud will always bring […]

Survey Shows Majority of Companies Are Vulnerable to BYOD Risks Did you know that the Mailbox iPhone app had a serious security flaw? I first heard about it when I logged on to my email this morning, and found this note from Kevin O’Brien, enterprise solution architect at CloudLock: An Italian software engineer revealed that […]

Security Checklist: Preparing for a Cyber Attack Microsoft IE is under a storm warning. The Internet Storm Center (ISC) raised its threat level to Yellow, indicating a significant new threat involving a vulnerability to all versions of Internet Explorer. ISC stated that it was seeing increased exploits in the wild based on Microsoft Security Advisory […]

Must-Know Facts Every Mobile User Should Know About Security Well, that didn’t take long. The much-heralded Touch ID on the new iPhone 5S has allegedly been hacked by a group of German hackers. It took all of 48 hours after the phone went on sale. Now, admittedly, this was no random hack. The German group […]

Must-Know Facts Every Mobile User Should Know About Security A few years ago, my son had a long commute to and from work, so he took a commuter bus with free Wi-Fi connection. Some days he’d use his smartphone to play computer games or check in with his social media sites. Other times he logged […]

Security Checklist: Preparing for a Cyber Attack I found it interesting that when I search Google for Vodafone, the first articles that come up under “News for Vodafone” are about the cable company’s large acquisition in Germany. I was looking for news about Vodafone’s recent breach, which affected the personal data of two million German […]

By now you have likely heard the buzz about the iPhone 5S, particularly about its security feature, Touch ID.  As CNN explained it, the phone has the ability to turn your fingerprint into a password. It sounds like a great idea, and as my regular readers know, I applaud all efforts to improve security on […]

Security Checklist: Preparing for a Cyber Attack Last week, some big name media outlets including the L.A. Times and Salon.com were hit by a malvertising attack. As a result, thousands of readers were sent to malicious sites such as the Black Hole exploit kit site. Malvertising attacks aren’t new. Essentially, the bad guys use the […]

Study Reveals Abuse of Mobile App Permissions In the spring, the Obad Trojan made news as the most sophisticated mobile Trojan out in the wild. When I first heard about it, my initial reaction was that it won’t be the most sophisticated Trojan for long – after all, mobile is a huge new target for […]