Well it’s a nice monitor
Well it’s a nice monitor
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Well it’s a nice monitor
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“Fingerprints are another type of data entirely. They’re used to identify people at crime scenes, but increasingly they’re used as an authentication credential. If you have an iPhone, for example, you probably use your fingerprint to unlock your phone. This type of authentication is increasingly common, replacing a password — something you know — with…
“For several years, TrueCrypt was the gold standard in PC disk decryption suites. That changed nearly 18 months ago, when the individuals who developed the software abruptly quit. The developers declared that the existing software was ““not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues,” provided a final version of the software to decrypt data,…
I don’t really know why this isn’t a job requirement for people with a security clearance already. Shouldn’t the ability to understand and use technology appropriately be the part of most job performance evaluations? Shouldn’t the inability to do that result in not getting a good evaluation? If so, shouldn’t someone granted a security clearance…
That’s a good question, and the part the Bruce Schneier found most interesting about a recent report by the Director of National Intelligence. Obviously, their focus is on the danger of intelligence information being altered, and the leadership no longer being able to trust the information given to them, but as a regular citizen, I’m…
This article reminded me of a statistic I saw during a presentation on insider threats last week. In a recent survey, over one third of employees would willingly sell their passwords/access to anyone, some for as little as $150. See the problem here is that while so many people are starting to wake up to…
Like most of you, my gmail account was integrated into Google’s new “Buzz” social networking tool, and unlike many in the blogosphere, I decided to give it a little while before commenting on it. So, after using it for a few days, and seeing what the “early” commentators had to say, I’d have to say…