Major Cell Carrier Program Protects Customers from SimSwapping

Major Cell Carrier Program Protects Customers from SimSwapping

Major Cell Carrier Program Protects Customers from SimSwapping T-Mobile is taking action against the social engineering attack known as Sim Swapping. Using a non-advertised and rather private feature knowns as “NOPORT” to prevent the tricking of their...
Enjoying Some Anonymity Maybe Not For Long

Enjoying Some Anonymity Maybe Not For Long

Enjoying Some Anonymity Maybe Not For Long Worldwide in research labs engineers are working on some scarily intrusive surveillance technology tools. But what happens once these technologies have completed the design and testing process — they must be sold and used....
HIPAA Can’t Protect Privacy In Medical Apps

HIPAA Can’t Protect Privacy In Medical Apps

HIPAA Can’t Protect Privacy In Medical Apps   Americans may soon be able to get their medical records through smartphone apps as easily as they order takeout food from Seamless or catch a ride from Lyft. But prominent medical organizations are warning that...
Has New Storage Tech Made It Impossible To Securely Erase Old Hard Disks

Has New Storage Tech Made It Impossible To Securely Erase Old Hard Disks

Has New Storage Tech Made It Impossible To Securely Erase Old Hard Disks In the olden days, when you wanted to replace your hard drive with a bigger one, you’d run a “secure erase” on it to completely remove any personal data. This would write zeros to the entire...
You Can Change Your Password but You Can’t Change Your Fingerprints

You Can Change Your Password but You Can’t Change Your Fingerprints

You Can Change Your Password but You Can’t Change Your Fingerprints   The biggest known biometric data breach to date was reported recently when researchers managed to access a 23-gigabyte database of more than 27.8m records including fingerprint and facial...