The background story The European Commission’s Directive on Data Protection went into effect in October 1998, and would prohibit the transfer of personal data to non-European Union countries that do not meet the European Union (EU) “adequacy” standard for privacy protection. While the United States and the EU share the goal of enhancing privacy protection […]
Paris Attacks Deepen Encryption Debate By Richard Adhikari Nov 18, 2015 5:00 AM PT ISIS has threatened to attack the United States and continue its reign of terror elsewhere in the world, so an argument could be made that the high-tech industry would serve the greater good by agreeing to weaken encryption. “No, it […]
Gmail to Warn Users of Unencrypted Email Author: Richard Adhikari Quotes: The warning “will help in cases where hackers try to perform DNS poisoning while trying to infect or phish users visiting well-established websites,” security consultant Sorin Mustaca said. Going with TLS is not necessarily the answer because “many emails would not reach […]
ENCRYPTION IS NOT SOLVING ALL CYBERSECURITY PROBLEMS Sorin Mustaca, CSSLP, shares his thoughts from a recent Frankfurt-based automotive show on the overreliance of the car industry on Encryption, noting “…all those lights are sensors and processors which communicate with each other via the CAN BUS (Controller Area Network). If one of them is […]
The email below (in German) is from PayPal. It is not a phishing email or a spam email pointing to some online pharmacy. I assure you of this. I have verified the DKIM and SPF information in the headers, checked all headers of any trace of alteration and of any trace of foreign IP address […]
This is the state of mind you should always have when you read an email. When something is too good to be true, it usually isn’t true. Here is an email I got, which sounds…… The post How to recognize a money laundry scam appeared first on Improve Your Security. Want to get the book […]
I received an email pretending to be from my hoster Strato (known as Cronon AG) telling me that my domain I have for my IT Consulting business has been suspended because of complains they received…. The post How to recognize a targeted malware/phishing attack appeared first on Improve Your Security. Want to get the book […]
When you see such an email, you don’t think that it is a phishing… After all, why would anyone steal your LinkedIn credentials, right? Nobody would request a ransom to give your credentials back, nobody would steal your email & password and try to reuse them on other websites. You have, after all, read my […]
As I mentioned already, anything that runs software has to abide to secure coding principles. Cars run more software than many other devices around us. And they run special software… which needs to be taken care of by other special software. And when that software is vulnerable, then you’re in trouble! Now some researchers discovered that […]
I stumbled upon this nice article with the title: Why Self-Driving Cars Must Be Programmed to Kill Not many ask this question now, but it has to be asked. How should the car be programmed to act in the event of an unavoidable accident? Should it minimize the loss of life, even if it means sacrificing […]
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