- Encryption How Digital Certificates Are Used and Misused
Digital certificates enable HTTPS communications, software signing, VPNs, and Wi-Fi authentication, but the PKI ecosystem shows weaknesses. Attackers misuse stolen code-signing certificates, CAs...
- Privacy What Happens After You've Set Up Google Inactive Account Manager?
Google's Inactive Account Manager notifies designated contacts after 3+ months of account inactivity, optionally sharing data with them. Google sends multiple alerts before expiration and requires...
- Privacy Establishing a Decoy Honeypot Persona
A honeypot persona is a fake online identity designed to attract and deceive scammers, deflecting attacks from the real person. Decoy profiles can expose inaccurate information while the legitimate...
- Incident Response Why Organizations Don't Prepare for Information Security Incidents
Organizations fail to prepare for security incidents not because they're unaware of threats, but because they believe they personally won't be attacked and underestimate the disruptive effects of...
- Assessments Technical and Political Boundaries of Security Assessments
Security assessment scoping involves both technical and political boundaries, since testing efforts are often artificially constrained by which teams control which systems. Defining rules of...
- Social Networking 5 Tech Trends That Explain the Evolution of Online Threats
Five technology trends—mainstream Internet adoption, mobile device proliferation, social networking, connectivity between physical and virtual worlds, and cloud computing—have shaped how criminals...