According to Kaspersky’s new 2015 Consumer Security Risks Survey, 73% of consumers use their devices primarily for working, but only 36% have implemented strong privacy settings – and 19% don’t take any precautions at all. Link: Large majority of device users put corporate information at risk
Many of us have done it. Rather than emailing a long list of people using the Bcc field, we’ve used Cc instead. Link: How a simple email error revealed the identities of hundreds of HIV patients
I started to review the recently published Black Hat Attendee Survey. This study primarily focused on the concerns of practitioners, including how they actually spent their times and the losses that they incurred. Link: Black Hat survey reveals a disconnect between losses and security program focus
After years of security experts demanding the RC4 stream cipher be deprecated, Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft announced Tuesday they will officially remove the encryption algorithm from respective Web browsers by early 2016. Link: Google, Mozilla, Microsoft browsers will dump RC4 encryption
As encryption increasingly becomes a championed cause, especially amid government backlash, at least one the world’s foremost cryptologists isn’t encrypting his communications, presumably along with other people both inside and outside the industry. Link: Creator of PGP doesn’t use PGP, spurs discussion
