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Why We Should All Pay for Smartphone Apps
Suppose Josephine and Rick have built the most incredible smartphone application ever. They offer it up to the market for a few dollars, and next thing we know they are millionaires. Their customers...
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Solving the End User Problem
Every IT manager knows that poor behavior of the part of end users is the biggest challenge in cybersecurity. The problem is primarily due to a lack of education – users don’t realize which of their...
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Mobile Malware Update (and Juniper’s report)
As a small part of my day job, I put together a monthly “Cybersecurity Digest”. Most of my subscribers are IT Managers in large organizations. I created the digest especially because I like...
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Internet Safety While Traveling – Deeper Dive
A “man in the middle” or MIM attack is not particularly difficult to pull off, and it represents one of the biggest cyber security threats we face when we are traveling – or in fact, any time we...
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The Most Important Things to Know About Internet Safety While Traveling
My cousin is on his way to Germany for a week and asked for some advice on being “cyber safe” while there. In other words, how can he stay connected with people and email but not become a victim of...
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Has Target Done Enough?
My favorite analogy in security is the one which describes each internet defense as a slice of swiss cheese: they all have their holes (weaknesses). The idea – if we want the best security – is to...
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Target breach update – how were HVAC passwords stolen?
As we learned from Krebs a few days ago in a Target breach update, the original entry point of the malicious software was Target’s HVAC company. Yes, that means the folks who handle their air...
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Credit Card Fraud: Why the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Fails Consumers
A reporter asked me last week whether I think the PCI Standards have completely failed consumers and been proven useless — because of the recent breaches — and so should “Rest in Peace.” For those who...
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…the ones I post at Kaspersky’s website, including Why Angry Employees are Everyone’s Problem and The Three Ps of Data Storage. I also post on LinkedIn, beneath my profile summary. These blogs can be...
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When Cybersecurity Vendors Lie
When Cybersecurity Vendors Lie* See if you can spot the problem inherent in this relatively common sales pitch: “For only $200,000 you can subscribe to our data feed today and receive truly actionable...
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