Password Resolution
Make a New Year’s Resolution to get a password manager and clean up and organize all your passwords. You will sleep better and avoid being hacked. There many password managers available. I recommend 1Password. It will create, store, remember, and insert hundreds of long, ugly, and impossible to remember passwords. It is a truly great piece of software. […]
College Students See Blockchain Voting In Their Future
Kaspersky Lab, a global cybersecurity company based in Massachusetts and the U.K., hosted a competition for college students interested in Internet voting. The motivation was in part due to recent concerns of rigged or hacked voting. Approximately 20 colleges across the U.S. and U.K. took part. A team from New York University took first place with a solution blending old […]
Congressional Group Agrees With Apple On Encryption
The Verge reported this week about the year-end-report published by the House Judiciary Committee’s Encryption Working Group. Apple and other tech companies will be pleased with the report. It acknowledges requiring a backdoor to assist law enforcement would weaken overall security. Law enforcement officials have maintained they need a backdoor to allow them to get into encrypted devices. […]
Hacker and Hacking or Hacked?
Quest Diagnostics announced in November its patient portal was hacked. The hit exposed the personal information of 34,000 people. Laboratory results from blood tests were included. Quest joins the list of Sony, Anthem Blue Cross, the Democratic National Committee, and many others who have been hacked. Millions of consumer records have been exposed. All of these were […]
Where Were You When…?
Most of us remember vividly where we were on September 11, 2001. In my case, I was in Danbury, Connecticut in the board room at Bristol Technology meeting with their CEO, Keith Blackwell. Remember where you were when you first heard that President Kennedy was assassinated, 53 years ago this week? (or when Jerry Garcia […]