Report: Everyone Should Get a Security Freeze
“Whether your personal information has been stolen or not, your best protection against someone opening new credit accounts in your name is the security freeze (also known as the credit freeze), not the often-offered, under-achieving credit monitoring. Paid credit monitoring services in particular are not necessary because federal law requires each of the three major credit bureaus to provide a free credit report every year to all customers who request one. You can use those free reports as a form of do-it-yourself credit monitoring.”
(tags: us credit credit-freeze security phishing brian-krebs)
Even the LastPass Will be Stolen, Deal with It
ugh, quite a long list of LastPass security issues
(tags: lastpass hacking security via:securitay exploits passwords)
Signs Point to Unencrypted Communications Between Terror Suspects
News emerging from Paris — as well as evidence from a Belgian ISIS raid in January — suggests that the ISIS terror networks involved were communicating in the clear, and that the data on their smartphones was not encrypted.
(tags: paris terrorism crypto via:schneier isis smartphones)