Cyber Attacks and Cyber Distrust Drives Older Technologies. I recently commented in my LinkedIn Smartcard Group to a posting about why The USPS was promoting their “snail mail over email. Some commentors argued that promoting older technologies like the post...
Cyber Warefare – Safeguard Your Electronic Devices. When employees travel abroad here are ten electronic devices security tips I pulled from a recent New York Times article, “Traveling Light in a Time of Digital Thievery” by Nicole Perlroth. Nicole discusses...
Who has the best password manager for online security? Online security is now more important with cyber attacks are on the rise in 2012. That is the prediction by many security experts. Individuals, industries and agencies are all trying to find safeguards that will...
The Smart Card Alliance offers platitudes but don’t identify the culprits! The Smart Card Alliance released their weak response to the recent Sykipot Tojan attack which hijacked the Department of Defense authentication smartcards. Unlike hypothetical attacks on...
Online shoe and apparel shop Zappos, now owned by Amazon, reported earlier this week that 24 million users names, e-mail addresses, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, and the last four digits of credit card numbers may have been illegally accessed. In...
With all the news articles regarding the cyber-attacks by Anonymous, China, India and the release of the weak passwords employees’ use, some “security pundits” recommend the use of “passphrases” instead of passwords. However, I have to pop their balloon in that...
