Blackberry backups are not as secure as RIM would have you believe
As with the iPhone, it turns out that Blackberry’s weak point is in the way that local backups are stored. While it’s been known that you can discover some information about an iPhone simply by using iTunes to make a backup, Blackberry has an air of tight security about them, as their devices first propagated [...]
Data Security Software
There are many software packages out there that claim to keep your data secure. But if you’re not a data security expert, how can you know which claims to trust? It’s not easy, but we have a few tips on keeping your data private and secure, and the most effective solutions are not always software [...]
Password security
One overlooked aspect of our advancing technological lives is the importance of passwords. All of the websites we frequently use, whether to bank or do some social networking, require a password. The concept of a password is simple: supply two things, a UserID to identify who you are, and a password to authenticate that identity [...]
Design Flaw in Yahoo! Mail
SANS Application Security Blog has an informative article on the flawed security built-in to one of the most popular webmail clients, Yahoo! Mail. This flaw takes advantage of one of the larger online security holes that exist in most any site that requires a username and password – the password reset mechanism. A similar “hack” [...]