To echo Bruce Schneier's comments, it's important to encrypt the data on your laptops. Yes, the laptops get stolen, they get lost and your private data is on them. So if you scramble up that data (using an encryption product), then you are somewhat insulating yourself from having that data stolen.
A new attack was introduced by Ed Felten and his band of merry Princeton grad students a w ...
I've seen a couple of data points recently where folks have published personal information, with the idea that the bad guys couldn't use if for identity theft. They were wrong and pretty stupid for doing it in the first place.
The first is Todd Davis, CEO of a company called LifeLock. I'm actually a customer and they do identity theft protection services. They've built a marketing ...
Interesting post on Roger Thompson's blog here about Google (in their infinite wisdom) deciding to block organic search links to sites they deem "bad." 90% of the time this works and is a good thing. If there is malware hosted on a site, you want Google to be blocking access from the search engine.
But what if there isn't malware there? What if it's a case of mistaken identity? Th ...
I'm a big fan of the Mac as a computing platform. No, OS X isn't more secure than Vista. But there are a lot less folks looking to exploit it and it's certainly architected (as is Vista) in a more secure fashion than Windows XP.
But does that mean you should be using all of Apple's applications. Like the Safari browser? Not necessarily. The CSO (chief security officer) of PayPal g ...
I got a press call this morning from a guy looking to learn more about "virtual credit cards." These are one-time use numbers that protect your main credit card and can only be used one time on one site. This capability is available from a few of the large credit card banks. Check out more information at the Cardratings site.
The reality is that using these virtual credit card num ...