by ray | Aug 10, 2015 | Security
Windows 10 has some handy new features, but if you believe the rest of the internet, it also comes with features that eviscerate any semblance of privacy. But that view is a little overblown. Let’s take a closer look at what each of these settings actually do—and...
by ray | Aug 9, 2015 | Security
It took some time for Kevin Stecko to learn in 2013 that the e-commerce system for his website, 80stees.com, had been hacked. Whoever did it “sat on the [data] for about six months,” Stecko says. “We didn’t notice anything.’’ He doesn’t know how the breach happened,...
by ray | Aug 9, 2015 | Security
SO YOU FINALLY installed Windows 10 and joined the ranks of the other 67 million users. You open your browser to search for a place to grab lunch, and Bing already knows your location. You notice that all the banner ads are geared toward your secret...
by ray | Aug 7, 2015 | Security
FOR A SECRETARY of state, running your own email server might be a clever—if controversial—way to keep your conversations hidden from journalists and their pesky Freedom of Information Act requests. But ask a few security experts, and the consensus is that...
by ray | Aug 7, 2015 | Security
Researchers at the security startup Shape Security say they’ve found a strain of malware on a client’s network that uses that new, furtive form of “command and control”—the communications channel that connects hackers to their malicious software—allowing them to send...
by ray | Aug 7, 2015 | Security
SO MANY HACKS, so few days in the week to write alarming stories about every one. Here’s our roundup of what you have may missed this week. First, some news: a shocking revelation that the GCHQ, England’s spy organization, has been spying on Amnesty International....
