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December 7, 2015
Do you still use one generic password to login across multiple websites? Even though it’s a pretty awful habit, you’re probably not alone. Most of of us now have hundreds…
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Google’s Safe Browsing technology is now enabled by default on Android to protect mobile Chrome users from accessing phishing sites and web pages that harbor malware. Until now,…
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Assuming the human eye could see them, what would the wireless signals that we are surrounded by in our homes, businesses and cities look like? Nothing like the…
Read articleNovember 18, 2015
That’s it. It just does. If Instagram wants to be where we capture and share our most treasured moments, it needs to help us protect them. The easiest…
Read articleNovember 18, 2015
Despite on-going belt-tightening of the U.K.’s public finances, there’s going to be more taxpayer cash and support up for grabs for cyber security startups starting from early 2016.…
Read articleNovember 17, 2015
Satya Nadella came to Washington, DC this morning, and delivered The Microsoft State of Security address, laying out Microsoft’s security vision and all of the tools and technologies that…
Read articleNovember 11, 2015
HackerOne, the bug bounty platform, announced today that it has hired Mårten Mickos as CEO. He was formerly an HP executive and CEO at Eucalyptus and MySQL. Mickos replaces…
Read articleNovember 9, 2015
Israel is a small country with a thriving security startup industry, and Microsoft appears to be have a taste for them. Today it announced an agreement to buy Secure…
Read articleOctober 27, 2015
As HP downsizes its own holdings in network security, another IT giant is ramping up: today Cisco announced that it would acquire Lancope, which focuses on behavior analytics,…
Read articleOctober 23, 2015
It’s very thin pickings for fans of physical Qwerty keyboards in these touch-sensitive mobile times. But for those few who remain hung up on the caress of plastic…
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