Easily one of the most addictive time wasters ever to emerge from Silicon Valley, Snapchat has grown by leaps and bounds over the past two years. Yet for anyone watching this juggernaut from
Published on: January 3rd, 2014
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
Secrecy is not a poor security practice as much as a compromise of integrity. EMC's RSA Security division recently made headlines when its enterprise products were expertly hacked, undermining the security of thousands of
Published on: December 23rd, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
Has this ever happened to you? No matter where you are in your career, you still get unscheduled support calls from your mom, asking for help with her latest computer gremlin. I'm sure
Published on: December 16th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
Five years ago I concocted a grandiose plan to sell out-of-the-box secure laptops to people who actually care about the security and privacy afforded by their computers. I contacted a number of laptop
Published on: November 25th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
In many ways, attending Toronto's biggest hacker conference is like drinking from a fire hose. At any point in time you have 6 seminars of which at least half are of particular interest.
Published on: October 10th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
In a recent report, antivirus software maker McAfee (now safely in Intel's hands and no longer related to notorious troublemaker/troubadour John McAfee) reports a vast increase in the number of unique instances of
Published on: August 22nd, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
Every day, business managers and IT execs risk their reputations by taking insecure systems and vulnerable applications to market Do you really need 5 reasons? I don't think so. But it serves to illustrate
Published on: July 23rd, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
There are all kinds of reasons to insource operational tasks, especially ones of the IT persuasion. But when organizations choose to insource activities that should instead be outsourced services, that’s what I call
Published on: July 10th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
How did secrecy become ubiquitous in the Information Age? It looked good on paper. Pervasive surveillance would be needed to protect the populace, and technology could facilitate the enormous challenge of inspecting global
Published on: June 17th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
According to the handy Wolfram Alpha search engine, some 24.5 years have passed since the introduction of the first Internet virus. And the first self-replicating malware to exist on the Internet’s precursor, the
Published on: June 6th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
There’s no doubt that each high profile breach is both a warning and an opportunity for competitors to make a strong case for better security and to bolster their defenses. Along with each
Published on: May 8th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
When LivingSocial.com discovered that the personal information of their 50 million or so users had been stolen, they did what most companies do: they initiated an investigation and hunkered down to weather the
Published on: April 30th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
Protecting your small business means more than checking off a few boxes If you’ve taken a stroll through office superstores or even a modern mega-bookstore you’ve no doubt noticed the abundance of ‘kits’
Published on: March 4th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
A secret unit of the Chinese army is linked to global cyber espionage. A recent survey indicates that the majority of Web surfing young employees don’t follow online security policies. How are emerging
Published on: March 1st, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
Security assessments are always interesting. I know, I do them all the time. You can never guess what you'll find when you're investigating a breach and a federal agency recently found that to
Published on: January 14th, 2013
Claudiu Popa
@datarisk
