The FCC has proposed new rules that could streamline and expand the nation’s Emergency Alert System, but one commissioner calls the proposed changes a power grab to expand the commission’s authority to the Internet.
William Jackson
One-time-password theft highlights challenges for 2-factor authentication
Malware for stealing out-of-band passwords for two-factor authentication demonstrates the need to maintain good security on mobile devices.
A new wrinkle in Search Engine Optimization
A sophisticated campaign using SQL Injection for Search Engine Optimization has been spotted by Akamai’s Threat Research Division, raising some questions about what is legitimate and what is proper.
DeepSpec: A new frontier in software development
A new multi-institutional project funded by NSF aims to bring software development from an art to a science, using formal logic and precise specifications for program behavior to create software that is verifiably reliable.
The year ahead in cybersecurity
Predicting things is easy. Here are my predictions for 2016 on cyber insurance, the Internet of Things, continuous monitoring and passwords.
Concerns raised by the rapid transition from POTS to IP
As the nation shifts to IP-based landline telephone service or cuts the cord to go mobile, carriers, consumers and regulators face a host of challenges in providing services we take for granted.
The Senate to take a look at ransomware
Despite legal victories against organized criminals who encrypt and hold computers for ransom, new malicious campaigns continue to crop up. The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee is seeking information from DHS and the DOJ on the extent of the problem and the government’s response.
How strong is your password? Hard to say
NIST is mulling over removing entropy requirements for passwords from its security guidelines. There really is no good way to measure how strong a password is, anyway.
Federal roadmap for health IT interoperability
This is a test of the Excerpt field. Treating the nationwide healthcare IT system as a critical infrastructure is a sensible requirement for a system that touches so many lives so closely.
The Move to Smarter Chip Payment Cards Has Begun
October 1 was the deadline for a shift in payment card fraud liability that marks a major effort to boost U.S. adoption of smarter credit and debit cards. October 1 was the deadline for a shift in liability for merchants who accept credit and debit cards, which means just about all merchants today. It passed … Continue reading The Move to Smarter Chip Payment Cards Has Begun