July 28, 2016
What’s this whole email thing about, anyway?
What do you know about the Clinton email scandal? If you’re anything like me, not much — yet! Let’s take a stroll into our political Swamp of Sadness…
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July 26, 2016
NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over
2-factor authentication is a great thing to have, and more and more services are making it a standard feature. But one of the go-to methods for sending 2FA…
Read articleJuly 25, 2016
Dashlane brings an enterprise password management tool to mobile devices
The popular password management utility Dashlane is going after the larger enterprise market today with the announcement of a new tool that will allow mobile employees to switch access…
Read articleJuly 19, 2016
Sift Science raises $30 million to predict and prevent fraud everywhere online
To predict and prevent fraud online even more quickly than cybercriminals adopt new tactics, Sift Science has raised $30 million in a Series C round of venture funding…
Read articleJuly 18, 2016
Beware the fake Pokémon Go apps
Earlier this month, the first Pokémon Go malware was spotted in the wild, but the app was not much of a threat to users as it never made it…
Read articleJuly 15, 2016
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle closes $50M Series C
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle, which also makes a security-focused Android smartphone called the Blackphone, has announced it’s closed a $50 million Series C round of financing, led…
Read articleJuly 11, 2016
Pokémon Go shouldn’t have full access to your Gmail, Docs and Google account — but it does
When you use Google to sign into Pokémon Go, as so many of you have already, the popular game for some reason grants itself (for some users, anyway)…
Read articleJuly 8, 2016
Facebook needs a way to report content as “Graphic But Newsworthy”
Mark Zuckerberg believes Facebook Live could illuminate wrongdoing in the world. Facebook still hasn’t explained the details of its policy on censorship of Live video. But today in…
Read articleJuly 7, 2016
Qualcomm says it issued patch for Android encryption flaw over a year ago
Cracking encryption is a topic of perpetual fascination. Congress has made several efforts to legislate it. The FBI tried to force Apple to do it. New messaging apps…
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Silent Circle’s Blackphone revealed as a sales flop
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle is being sued by its former joint venture hardware partner, Geeksphone, for not paying part of a previous agreed sale price for buying…
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