On June 15, 2015 the Consumer Watchdog group from Santa Monica, CA addressed a petition to the FCC regarding the way “edge” providers honor the “do not track request”. By “edge providers” the group has in mind entities such as Google, Facebook, YouTube, Pandora, Netflix, or LinkedIn. The “do not
The encryption debate reads the following way: while the logic of cyber-security and its encryption tools forecasts an impenetrable encryption, the government is worried that such an efficient cyber feature would block the law enforcers. Although creating a relative paradox, the diverging opinions
A survey on smart home and cyber-security, entitled “Behind our Digital Doors: Cybersecurity and the Connected Home”, revealed among other facts that 67% of the respondents possess between 1 and 5 Internet connected home devices, while 30% have 6 or more devices and 5% of households have 11 or more
The EMV card comes with enhanced security features, but also with particular vulnerabilities. Since this type of credit cards has been utilized for a while in Europe and in other regions of the globe, the cyber-attackers have already developed various methods of bypassing the security features in
In our article on organizational doxing we mentioned social engineering with a promise on detailing this subject. The connection is straightforward – malicious digital entities use doxing as part of their social engineering maneuvers. However, what does social engineering mean? Social engineering
It often occurs in the aftermath of a severe data breach that cyber-security analysts talk about the attacked system as not being secured enough, because it did not use multi-factor authentication. Abbreviated MFA, multi-factor authentication is actually 2FA in most of the cases: two-factor
