Archive for February, 2016

The “Software Equivalent of Cancer”

I like the way Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, recently described the situation of why Apple is choosing not to unlock the iPhone used by the San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook — he called it the “software equivalent of cancer” in

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Hacker Publishes the Personal Info of 20k FBI Agents and 9K DHS Employees

Yikes, looks like a hacker was able to compromise the databases of a the United States FBI and DHS according to an article from VICE. It’s easy to throw rocks at the US government, but I feel for the them, I

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Apple and the San Bernadino Case

So most of you have probably already seen the news about the US government asking Apple to making it’s iOS devices easier to hack into and Apple not complying. Apple posted this letter to customers a few days ago that

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Microsoft Careers Database Exposed by Vendor

Microsoft’s mobile career website database was left exposed according to this article. This time it wasn’t Microsoft’s fault, but rather a vendor they were using to develop and host the site. And nearly almost every vulnerability scanner out there would have

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2016 Data Protection Minimum Checklist: What to Ask Your Vendor if We Were You

Last week I wrote about the Absolute Basics of Protecting Data for 2016. If protecting data isn’t your area of expertise, luckily it’s ours. Here’s a checklist of the minimum things you should ask your vendors in 2016 about how

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