data protection
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You Have No Excuses For Crappy Passwords Anymore
1The password itself is crappy. It’s a fundamentally flawed mechanism for securing our accounts and data that should have died long ago. That means poorly crafted passwords are doubly bad. But with the release of iOS 12 and recent updates to Android, truly terrible passwords—your 123456, facebookpassw0rd, or dEadP3tsnAme—have lost all reason to exist.
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CrashPlan Dumps Home Backup Plans
One of the best uses for cloud storage is offsite backups. I don’t mean file syncing but real backups you can use to restore entire systems or applications. CrashPlan has, until now, offered some solid options for home and SMB users, But CrashPlan’s owner, Code42, has announced that CrashPlan for Home will shut down on…
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How Google’s Head Of Cybersecurity Protects Himself Online
For peace of mind, you may be taking simple steps to enhance your privacy, such as taping over the webcam (a la Mark Zuckerberg), turning off location services or browsing the web in incognito mode. So it may be interesting to know Google’s cybersecurity boss, Gerhard Eschelbeck, doesn’t bother with any of these small measures.…
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Too Much Innovation: The Cyber Challenge
As the director of cyber programs at Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI), Esti Peshin deals with large companies around the world in developing and deploying technologies to support cyber security. With a capability built up over many years in electronic warfare, the IAI found they were able to reapply that expertise in the field of cyber…