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Banking Social Engineering Scams are Alive and Well
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The easiest way for hackers to steal your money is to get you to help them do it. We are seeing attacks where the victim gets a text message supposedly from their bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction and asking the victim if it is legitimate. If the victim answers, the hacker goes into high…
Security by Design – A Great Example
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Recently the communications technology firm Twillio was hacked and a number of their customer’s accounts were compromised. Among those compromised was the account of the secure messaging app Signal. While this is not good, Signal spent a lot of effort baking in security by design. Learn about what they did and why those efforts towards…
Technical Debt
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Are you managing your technical debt? Do you even understand what technical debt is? Does your management and Board (if there is one) understand that unaddressed technical debt is like a bottle of nitroglycerin just waiting to be jarred in the wrong way. And we just saw a massive example (as in their technical debt…
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Dark Patterns and the Law
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Dark patterns are techniques that web site operators, typically, use to make it more difficult to choose one option than another. For example, try to close your Amazon account or your Facebook account. It used to be that you had to call Amazon and they would try and talk you out of it. Now you…
DoD’s New Instruction on Labelling Controlled Technical Information
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Most defense contractors have been complaining about the lack of specificity of how to protect controlled technical information or CTI. DoD has just released instructions clarifying the rules around protecting CTI. Learn more here.
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What Should You Preserve When Employees Leave?
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Employees come and go and 99% of the time it is innocuous. Occasionally companies get involved in lawsuits as well. Properly preserving evidence (or preserving it at all) can be the difference between finding out what you need or prevailing in a lawsuit. Are you prepared? Audio Video