A few hundred expert hackers offering “crime as a service” are behind a large percentage of all the cybercrime acts committed. That’s the conclusion of a group of international law…
For over a decade, people all over the world have used Tor (formerly known as the Onion Router) to protect their privacy. The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory developed the system…
Apple Pay was launched on Oct. 20 and, thanks to all the media excitement, you could be forgiven for thinking that it was the first mobile payment system to…
When the TrueCrypt encryption software project was abandoned two years ago, it left many folks looking for an open source encryption system. VeraCrypt appeared on the scene as a TrueCrypt…
Recent corporate security breaches have taught us something important: The average computer user is spectacularly bad at choosing good passwords. The most popular passwords turn out to be simple, easy-to-remember…
Digital certificates play a vital security role on the Internet. They allow you to prove that your websites are genuine, sign applications and software updates to prove that they originated…
The security threat landscape changes constantly, with malicious hackers developing new ways to compromise your systems as older vulnerabilities are discovered and patched. So it’s important to be aware…
When hackers broke in to the New York Times’ network, evaded its anti-virus software and began plundering its computer systems, it highlighted a rather uncomfortable truth: ?Anti-virus software is not…
Why are hackers able to breach the security of so many organizations using known vulnerabilities, and what can you do minimize the risk that this happens to you? It’s an…
The rise of IPv6 could give you some severe security headaches — even if you have no current plans to implement the new networking protocol. That was the stark warning…
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