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In late 2019, Accenture Strategy did an assessment on “Securing the Digital Economy.” Topics included: The Internet Just Can’t Keep Up The IoT Effect Identities in Crisis No Flow Versus Free Flow The Cost of Insecurity Keeping Tabs on Cybersecurity Investments Then they gave recommendations for actions in the following areas: Governance Infrastructure Technology This…
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Recently one of my co-workers sent me this article (archive.is). He asked: What do you think of his assessment that VPNs are worthless and you are better off with HTTP Anywhere, etc? That’s not going to be a quick answer. Just before a promotion for a commercial VPN service, the author says: VPN services don’t make you…
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I’m a regular listener to TWiT’s Security Now podcast with Steve Gibson. On a recent podcast Steve mentioned AV-Comparatives‘ anti-virus testing. If you’re a regular reader of this blog you also know I’m a fan of Windows Defender. AV-Comparatives’ September 2018 test (PDF) showed that Windows Defender was in the very top performers. Steve’s assessment was: Given that Microsoft is one of the 6…
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One day on my deals feed was this gadget: The post said “We can all afford to be paranoid at this price.” Should we really be paranoid? So I went to wikipedia. The examples and perspective in this article may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Contactless payment systems are credit cards and debit cards,…
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So do you have one of the new “Chip and PIN” cards? They are also known as “EMV” for Europay/MasterCard/Visa. Instead of swiping you’re supposed to “dip” them. Currently not all merchants have implemented the “dip” technology. There are fiscal liability implications related to that don’t affect the consumer so I won’t cover that here.…
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You always hear that macOS is more secure than Windows. In reality that perception is because macOS has been a smaller target (less devices) than Windows. I recently came across an example that puts money behind the assertion that Windows is more secure than macOS. Pwn2Own is a computer hacking contest held annually at the CanSecWest security…
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No, I’m not talking about video signals. I listen to a lot of security podcasts. I’d been hearing them talk about “red teams” and “blue teams.” I didn’t know what they were talking about. So off to Google and I came up with this. These terms refer to teams that participate in penetration tests. Red Teams are external…