Day: March 14, 2017

It's time to turn on HTTPS: the benefits are well worth the effort

After Edward Snowden revealed that online communications were being collected en masse by some of the world’s most powerful intelligence agencies, security experts called for encryption of the entire web. Four years later, it looks like we’ve passed the tipping point. The number of websites supporting HTTPS—HTTP over encrypted SSL/TLS connections—has skyrocketed over the past

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Mirai is the hydra of IoT security: too many heads to cut off

Efforts to stop Mirai, a malware found infecting thousands of IoT devices, have become a game of whack-a-mole, with differing opinions over whether hackers or the security community are making any headway. The malicious code became publicly available in late September. Since then, it’s been blamed for enslaving IoT devices such as DVRs and internet

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6 security essentials the CIA forgot

Wikileaks’ CIA dump is the biggest secret cache released so far. It’s embarrassing to the CIA. It undermines our intelligence efforts. And it didn’t need to happen. The sad fact is that the world’s computers are not configured securely enough to match the confidentiality of the data they are protecting. As a society we allow

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