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Cross-site scripting, or XSS, is a well-known cybersecurity risk that allows malicious users to take control of, and exploit a user’s system. Another security risk is Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF, or “sea surf”).  This risk allows someone to execute functions within a user’s authenticated session, thus the “forgery” portion of the name. These two risks … Read more

It is extremely important to keep your software updated, particularly your web browser.  By way of example, consider older versions of the Safari Browser. One of the features of Safari is the “Top Sites” function, which stores a user’s favorite and most visited web sites.  Prior to version 4.0.3 though, the “Top Sites” function was … Read more

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed nearly all of the civil claims filed against Hannaford Bros. for the supermarket giant’s alleged failure to protect and notify consumers during an electronic data breach in late 2007 and early 2008. Judge D. Brock Hornby ruled that the only consumers who will be allowed to proceed with the … Read more

For the past year, newspaper headlines have screamed about major data breaches at big retailers (Target), huge health insurers (Anthem), and big government (the United States’ Internal Revenue Service, also the massive breach of employee records at the Office of Personnel Management, OPM). Note:  there may be more press coverage of hacks in the United … Read more

Well, it finally happened. Long touted as an alternative both more secure and more entertaining than Android, Apple’s infamously locked-down marketplace has finally suffered a major breach. How did this happen, who is affected, and how much should we be panicking? Xcode — Ghosted The breach centers around Apple’s integrated development environment (IDE), known as … Read more

The UK government GetSafeOnline website offers free advice and tells its users, “so now you really can stay safe with everything you do online.” Buy a Windows-based computer and the likelihood is it will arrive with pre-installed anti-virus software, often McAfee (part of Intel, which produces the processor chips most usually found on Windows computers). … Read more

It doesn’t matter where you live, or what time in history you happen to have lived. Whenever something bad happens to your country, your government will react — overreact — in a way that is ultimately counterproductive. Here’s an example: in 1798, less than ten years after the US constitution and the Bill of Rights … Read more

The report out of the Pell Center for International Relations and Foreign Policy is almost enough to make you crawl under the covers and turn off the lights. In its review of cybersecurity practices of United States’ states it found that there is plenty to worry about. Your personal data may be at very high … Read more

We are now in the beginning of the big change when, suddenly, mobile banking is under full-bore criminal assault. That means your money is very much at risk. That had not been so until now. Ask cybersecurity experts why mobile banking appeared to be significantly safer than online banking and a year ago they had … Read more

You want to hire a tech troubleshooter or maybe something as straightforward as a mover. So you do what we have all come to do in the last decade: Sift through online reviews. Stop right there. You may be putting your wallet in danger. You may even be putting your security at risk. That is … Read more