There have been a number of recent stories with celebrities photos being leaked online, including Scarlet Johansson, Christine Hendricks, Olivia Munn and more. I was interviewed by Fox News regarding how celebrities can better protect themselves. The obvious answer is to not take the photos and store them on their devices or in the cloud [...]
Recently Scarlet Johansson has been added to the list of celebrities who have had photos taken on their phone compromised. The media is stating this is an apparent ring of hackers that are stealing the data from celebrities phones and laptops, however this theory seems suspect. More likely is that the images are being stolen [...]
Over the past few months we have seen a number of large scale data breaches from high profile companies such as Sony, RSA, Epsilon and NASDAQ . These are well established companies, some even from the security industry that are falling prey to hackers, showing that even those investing large amounts of money in security [...]
There have been a rash of data breaches where passwords have been compromised that were stored as plain text and not converted to a one-way hash as they should be. However, most consumers and even many developers particularly in startups don’t know about the best practice of hashing passwords, what it means and how it [...]