“It’s worth noting, as Fusion editor Ethan Chiel did in the aforementioned episode of Press Play, that the practice of storing information in “the cloud” is a nebulous one. “The ‘cloud’ is just someone else’s hard drive,” he said, emphasizing that information and content we think of as “safe” simply because it’s located on a…
“In May 2014, Shawe and Elting filed four lawsuits against each other. Shawe distributed a litigation hold notice, which applied to text messages and laptop data. However, he failed to image or preserve his own iPhone or laptop per the litigation hold, and deleted 19,000 files from the laptop before it was imaged pursuant to…
The U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) says in a new draft of its Digital Authentication Guideline that SMS-based two-factor authentication should not be used due to security concerns. “[Out of band verification] using SMS is deprecated, and will no longer be allowed in future releases of this guidance,” the documents reads. As…
If this doesn’t convince you to use a password manager just look at it this simply. We are seeing more and more hacks aimed at grabbing passwords from random websites, not so much to get access to those accounts, but to try and run the same usernames and passwords over other websites and gain access…
“Data from the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometers could be used to monitor the way your wrist moves, whether you’re tapping in your pin at a cash point, or entering your Facebook password on your phone. There are a wide range of scenarios where your wearable could be compromising your security.” Yeah, it’s unlikely, but if…
Yes we certainly have come a long way, and more importantly, if you can spend that little to get 8TB of storage, there’s simply no reason to not have a backup of all the data on your machine. On the flip side, if everyone can easily have 8TB+ of storage in their home, we need…