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Google's Free Airport Wi-Fi: Five Ways to Protect Yourself
by Jeff Bertolucci, PC World
Free Wi-Fi while you're waiting for your flight? Sounds like a great way to save money, and kudos to Google for offering it at many U.S. airports during the holidays. Unfortunately, Google's generosity may also lure identity thieves and nefarious hackers to the nation's terminals to prey on clueless travelers.
Public hotspots, which by nature are open and unencrypted, are notoriously insecure. Information you transmit via laptop, smartphone, or gaming device may very well fall into the wrong hands. There are ways to stay safe, however. We asked Edgar Figueroa, executive director of industry trade group the Wi-Fi Alliance, for some hotspot safety tips. They are...
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TECH NEWS WORLD - IS AES ENCRYPTION CRACKABLE?
by Jack M. Germain
A team of researchers has discovered what they think could be a flaw that leaves AES encryption open to attack. The technique has only been shown in a theoretical setting; in practice, such a hack would be very difficult to pull off. Still, such a finding could bring into question the faith that's been placed in AES -- and spur new innovation to make encryption even better.
In the field of computer technology, some topics are so frequently and fiercely disputed that they almost resemble religious feuds -- Mac vs. PC, for instance, or open source vs. proprietary software.
Other topics, though, don't see nearly the same level of high-profile debate. Take the invulnerability of AES (the Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption, for example. Governments and businesses place a great deal Increase Customer Sales with Email Marketing -- Free Trial from VerticalResponse of faith in the belief that AES is so secure that its security key can never be broken. However, a team of researchers from Germany, France and Israel has recently demonstrated what may be an inherent flaw in AES -- theoretically, at least.
So how secure is AES really? Is AES now vulnerable to a new attack, as the researchers claim?
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FBI: Cyber crooks stole $40M from U.S. small, mid-sized firms
The Washington Post
by Bryan Krebs
Cyber criminals have stolen at least $40 million from small to mid-sized companies across America in a sophisticated but increasingly common form of online banking fraud, the FBI said this week.
According to the FBI and other fraud experts, the perpetrators have stuck to the same basic tactics in each attack. They steal...
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Analyst DLP study finds maturity, ranks top DLP vendors
SearchSecurity.com
by Robert Westervelt, News Editor
Fearful of being the next high-profile victim of a data breach, companies are turning to data leakage prevention (DLP) technology to keep track of sensitive data and control its location at the endpoint. But the technology is becoming...
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Firefox Tweaks
by Martin McKay
I’ve had a few opportunities to install Firefox lately, first on a new netbook, then again on the netbook when I installed Windows 7, and a third time while setting up a new work laptop. It’s given me a good chance to figure out what’s really important to me in...
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Unauthentication
by Bruce Schneier
In computer security, a lot of effort is spent on the authentication problem. Whether it's passwords, secure tokens, secret questions, image mnemonics, or something else, engineers are continually coming up with more complicated—and hopefully more secure—ways for you to prove you are who you say you are over the Internet.
This is important stuff, as anyone with an online bank account or remote corporate network knows. But a lot less thought and work have gone into the other end of the problem: how do you tell the system on the other end of the line that you're no longer there? How do you unauthenticate yourself?
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