LifeLock, an Arizona company promising
customers protection from identity theft, has agreed to pay $12 million
to settle charges that the company overstated its benefits and used
“scare tactics” to gain subscribers. Read the full article. [Computerworld]
Small and medium-sized businesses are losing a staggering £785 million per year to cybercrime, according to a joint report published by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) and the Home Office and Business Departments in the United Kingdom.
The next shoe has fallen in an effort to force wireless carriers and handset makers
Information security is littered with bad analogies. And none sounds sillier than a watering hole attack, which plays off the tactic that dominant animals use when stalking food by loitering at a watering hole. Rather than chase their prey, a lion will wait for prey to come to it. Hackers are doing the same thing to a great degree of success. Rather than using a spear phishing email campaign to lure prey to them, hackers are infecting vulnerable sites of a common interest to their targets, and then redirecting them to malware and more badness.
NZ-2013. Day 9. Route. On the ninth day in NZ we simply tramped back along the path we’d already walked along (see Day 7), so spent most of the day checking out scenery we’d already seen. On v...
Ever heard complaints about computer slowdown caused by running antiviral protection? It’s not relevant anymore, that is, if you use a modern antivirus that has been thoroughly optimized for the bes...
Cybersecurity for the next generation!
