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Researchers released findings today on a critical vulnerability in the way devices using WiFi authenticate themselves with WiFi access points and routers. The exploit that takes advantage of this vulnerability is known as a Key Reinstallation AttaCK, or “KRACK” for short. Unfortunately for all of us, this vulnerability is actually found in a core protocol that

Scam

I spend so much time looking at search results that I’ve learned how to effectively ignore the advertising surrounding them, but two recent client incidents have again reminded me that not everyone is savvy to the way that Google and several other search engines present their search results, and more importantly, how advertisements are displayed

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Yahoo has just announced that instead of one billion accounts being compromised in the 2013 security breach, all of its approximately three billion accounts were compromised in some form. In case you’ve lost track, the 2013 breach is different from the 2014 breach, in which “only” 500 million accounts were compromised. The press release from

The Elephant on the Internet

In the days following the Equifax breach announcement I have been talking with many people – clients, family & friends – about what they should be doing to ensure they are prepared for a possibility of their identity being stolen. Across all these conversations one theme became readily apparent: none of the dozens of people

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Warning!

In case you thought the Equifax breach might be easing itself out of the limelight, news has arrived that is just pouring more fuel onto this raging dumpster fire. Reports are surfacing that the credit agency was breached earlier this year in March, possibly by the same hackers, which now puts extra spice on speculation

Time for Caution

The Equifax Debacle so far

I’m pretty sure even if you were hiding under a rock in some remote corner of America you probably heard that credit reporting company Equifax was breached and confidential information on nearly 150 million Americans was stolen. Rather than handling it like an industry leader, they seemed to have stumbled around like a tyro startup

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