This came across my desk yesterday and looks like the Sony PlayStation Network was hacked according to Wired.com. Details are trickling in, but it’s believed that over 70 million credit cards were compromised as part of this hack. Here’s the official response from Sony. –Kevin LOCKBOX SFT, the easiest to use and most secure file transfer [...]
Our iPhone passwords app called LOCKBOX Passwords was release last week. Check it out on the Apple AppStore at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lockbox-passwords/id420857097?mt=8&ls=1. If you have lots of passwords to remember, and want to keep them organized and highly secured, this app is for you! –Kevin LOCKBOX SFT, the easiest to use and most secure file transfer service
Just wanted to share the news that over at LOCKBOX we will soon be releasing our iPhone app that lets you store your most sensitive passwords in a highly secure and safe way. Sure we know that there are lots of similar apps, but this one has extended security features that help protect your data [...]
Microsoft earlier this week released an important patch that addresses the MS10-070 security issue which affects nearly every ASP.NET Web application, and I have to say I once again find myself shaking my head with disappointment. But not at Microsoft. Microsoft did the right thing: they acknowledged the issue, released details about how to implement controls [...]
National Public Radio (NPR) reported several weeks ago that the United States government was seeing a shortage of qualified ‘cyber (security) warriors’, that is professionals who are skilled enough to effectively protect the US digital infrastructure from cyber attacks. The original article lives here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128574055. The article glanced at the general problem and what the US [...]
Perhaps you heard some news about 100k+ iPad user emails and other info getting exposed? Well turns out that the leak happened due to an unprotected AT&T web server, not due to any flaws related to Apple’s iPad. What’s interesting about this story is not the data leak itself, but rather how it seems that [...]
That was a quote from Barry Briggs, CTO for Microsoft’s internal IT department, from the article at http://www.techflash.com/seattle/2010/05/microsoft_cto_cloud_computiing_an_inevitable_tidal_wave.html. In the article Mr. Barry was asked what he thought might slow down the growth or adoption of clouds and he brought up the topic of cloud security and some of the security question marks around this topic. If [...]
“OK … here comes the pain …” –Scarface In August 2009, I booted up the home computer to offload some photos taken during a recent trip across Europe only to find (to my “delight” of course) that both primary and backup drives had failed. Failed drives on a home computer. No big deal normally; however [...]
Hey All, With 2010 arriving soon, just wanted to give thanks to our customers and say what a great year 2009 was for this company. When I look back on 2009, here are some of the highlights that come to mind: Delivering some really outstanding results to our customers (we never talk about specific findings, [...]
Last week I came across two stories about PayChoice (a payroll processing company) and the United States National Security Agency (NSA) getting hacked and really didn’t think twice about them. Every organization is susceptible to online risk regardless of best-efforts employed, in-house expertise yada yada. A trip to Vancouver, British Columbia this past weekend however got me thinking deeper about those stories and the lessons [...]
