• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-25-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Outdated payment terminals exempted by Mozilla from SHA-1 certificate ban

Less than two months after a ban came into effect for new SSL/TLS certificates signed with the weak SHA-1 hashing algorithm, exemptions are already starting to take shape.Mozilla announced Wednesday that it will allow Symantec, which runs one of the... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-25-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on With few options, companies pay hush money to data thieves

There’s a disturbing new angle to cyberattacks that has become more common over the last year, and it is proving costly for organizations: extortion.Over the last year, companies have at times paid more than US$1 million in hush money to […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-25-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on With few options, companies pay hush money to data thieves

There’s a disturbing new angle to cyberattacks that has become more common over the last year, and it is proving costly for organizations: extortion.Over the last year, companies have at times paid more than US$1 million in hush money to […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-25-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Arizona county attorney to ditch iPhones over Apple dispute with FBI

Apple’s refusal to help the FBI unlock an iPhone 5c used by one of the terrorists in the San Bernardino, California attack on Dec. 2 has prompted the Maricopa County attorney’s office in Arizona to ban providing new iPhones to […]

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