Which is better, “two-factor authentication” or “two-step verification”? Should you choose a token, SMSes or an app? John Shier helps you understand the various sorts of 2FA…
Tag Archives: Privacy
SSCC 173 – Lest we forget [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly “Chet Chat” security podast. Chet and Duck take on the week’s news in their inimitable way…enjoy!
YouTube channel swamps police with requests for disclosure of body-cam video
A YouTube channel has been surfacing police body-cam footage. It now has some 75 videos up, showing, among other things, men with knives, break-ins, car accidents, drug smoking, and an emergency phone call about a woman going into labor. Subjects’ privacy, it seems, is getting trampled in the stampede to get at such video. 
Tor Project puzzles over how the law shredded anonymity in Operation Onymous
The Tor Project would very much like to know how identities were laid bare in the recent Operation Onymous.
Firefox turns 10 – celebrates by helping you to forget
The Firefox browser just turned 10. Paul Ducklin takes a trip down memory lane…
US Postal Service breached, employee and customer data stolen
The United States Postal Service on Monday warned workers that their data had been compromised, along with people who had contacted the Customer Care Center between January and August this year. 
Operation Onymous: 17-nation bust takes out over 400 “hidden services”
It turns out that last week’s bust of Silk Road 2.0’s kingpin was just a hint at what was coming: namely, a multinational crackdown on dark-market sites hidden away on the Tor network. 
Is your webcam or baby monitor video feed being streamed to this website?
A website is searching for and publishing streams from internet-enabled cameras secured only with default passwords. Make sure you’re not one of them.
My password is…no, sorry, it’s completely slipped my mind – 60 Sec Security [VIDEO]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly “60 Second Security” video. It’ll only take a minute…
Department of Homeland Security employee data breached in “state-sponsored attack”
Personal data may well have been snatched out of the US government’s top employee background-checking firm in what officials are calling a major security breach. 