Last week, Eset Research posted a report about malware they had discovered which gathered information about infected computers and reported it back to the attack…
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OPLIN 4cast #515: IoT security
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This is supposed to be the year the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes the big new thing in our lives. But over the last few…
The Internet of Things is exploding. It’s likely that you’re already aware of many smart home devices, such as thermostats, doorbells and even light bulbs.…
For the last couple of years, Google has been encouraging websites to use the HTTPS protocol to secure the traffic between the website and the…
What are electronic communication transactional records? Well… that’s actually a pretty good question. The answer starts with National Security Letters (NSLs), secret demands for information…
A couple of weeks ago, we got a glimpse inside the anti-malware/antivirus (AV) industry, when Google announced a change to the user policies for VirusTotal,…
OPLIN 4cast #481: DDoS is still growing
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Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are becoming an ever bigger problem on the Internet. DDoS attacks send so much traffic to a web server…
OPLIN 4cast #456: Password (in)sanity
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Passwords, passwords, when are we ever going to quit talking about passwords? Perhaps sooner than you might think. The huge hack of the Ashley Madison…
OPLIN 4cast #448: Pro-am cybersecurity
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Last week, while this blog was scaring you with tales of hackers-for-hire, the Google folks were presenting some interesting security practices research [pdf] at the…