Tag:security

Change your LinkedIn Password Now!

Over six million LinkedIn passwords were posted to a hacking forum on Monday June 4th – with an open invitation to decrypt them. Do you use LinkedIn? Do you also use that LinkedIn password on any other site… banking, or at work, or on Twitter or WordPress? Go change that password, now.  In fact, attackers…

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Cloud File Encryption – requirements or compromises
Cloud File Encryption – requirements or compromises

Another good question to ask of a prospective cloud storage provider: what is their use of encryption? Managing data securely involves many things, but one element that suppliers make quite a song and dance about is the fact that they encrypt your documents/data, making it “100% secure.” But things are not quite that simple, and…

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Confidentially: Trouble lurks in law firms | Pondering Prosperoware Matter Hub

  “Centralized administration of confidentiality is doomed to failure.” Public default security is tantamount to “letting the fox mind the chicken coop.” These are the dramatic teaser quotes from a 2011 blog at prosperoware.com . The article puts forward Prosperoware’s Matter Hub as a way to enable decentralized administration of matter security.  On each matter the lead attorney…

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