• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-01-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Google’s Chrome Web Store lists malicious Chrome apps ahead of legit extensions

Search for many popular extensions on the Chrome Web Store and you’ll see misleading and potentially malicious apps first. Google’s Chrome Web Store always lists apps before extensions, and hucksters have taken advantage of this to trick unsuspecting users into […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-01-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Harvard study refutes ‘going dark’ argument against encryption

A study from Harvard released Monday largely refutes claims that wider use of encryption in software products will hamper investigations into terrorism and crime.It predicts that the continued expansion of Internet-connected devices — such as smart TVs and vehicles, IP […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Feb-01-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Harvard study refutes ‘going dark’ argument against encryption

A study from Harvard released Monday largely refutes claims that wider use of encryption in software products will hamper investigations into terrorism and crime.
It predicts that the continued expansion of Internet-connected devices — such as smart TVs and vehicles, IP […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Jan-29-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Cisco patches authentication, denial-of-service, NTP flaws in many products

Cisco Systems has released a new batch of security patches this week for flaws affecting a wide range of products, including for a critical vulnerability in its RV220W wireless network security firewalls.The RV220W vulnerability stems from insuffici... Read More