A California woman says she never authorized the update, which left her work PC “unusable” for days. Source: Sophos
As time goes by, each year we have more and more BSides events all over the world where the information security community can get together in a laid back atmosphere without the usual formalities found in other conferences. For starters, anyone can be a part of a BSides, the entrance is free and the call […]
To swipe or to press? Your fingerprint is the new key that unlocks digital life. Fingerprint recognition is an increasingly popular security barrier that can be found in all sorts of high-end devices that are currently on the market. It’s fast and easy, and can be used as an alternative or a complement to those hard-to-remember passwords. But can we depend on fingerprint […]
Last year, an undisclosed employee from Pennsylvania based Alpha Payroll was wrongly fired because he fell for a deceptive cyber-criminal’s trap. The company, Alpha Payroll, is known for processing payroll solutions for businesses, but now the company will be remembered as the victim of a very large Phishing scam. It all started when an employee received […]
A KrebsOnSecurity story last month about credit card skimmers found in self-checkout lanes at some Walmart locations got picked up by quite a few publications. Since then I’ve heard from several readers who work at retailers that use hundreds of thousands of these Ingenico credit card terminals across their stores, and all wanted to know the same thing: […]
Besides the exciting and long-awaited developments Apple presented at its annual WWDC event in San Francisco, there were also some security related announcements that should not go unnoticed. The Apple brand talked about a new concept that they are beginning to use in all of their services that they say is the future of […]
