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Precocious Hacker Finds Big Trouble

In the Netherlands this week, Dutch Police arrested a 17-year-old hacker on charges of…

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Compliance & Security: Tomato, To-mah-to?
Tina Stewart
Compliance & Security: Tomato, To-mah-to?

The very cleverly titled story on CSO Online “Barclays Contactless Card Users Exposed to Fraud” appears to suggest that Barclay Card’s Near Field Communication (NFC) cards are…

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Data Breach Recent News

In news reports breaking today, Visa and MasterCard are warning banks…

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Data Encryption: Random Or Pseudorandom?

If you want to use encryption, you need to use keys. A key is (or rather should be) a random number that can encrypt or decrypt your information. A strong key is strong because…

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Mediyes Trojan Shines Spotlight On Mismanaged Signature Keys

Just last week a new example of the consequences of inadequately protected signature keys came to light. As reported in Network World , Kaspersky Lab discovered that a recently…

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“Big Data” Means Bigger Security Needs

Last week, Vormetric attended the RSA Security Event. As always, the event is informative and useful for security professionals. This year, though, there was a new tone to the…

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