If you’re a privacy-centric individual, this post is for you. Mozilla, the creator of Firefox, has championed the new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard known as DNS over HTTPS (DoH). This isn’t a new concept, as Mozilla wrote about this back in 2018, but I only now came across their post describing it. Aside from the post explaining how DoH works, they also break … [Read more...]
Legal Requirements of Wiretapping, Amongst Other Things
I recently wrote about the heat Huawei has been getting and briefly mentioned “there are legalities in place” regarding wiretapping. In this post, I wanted to expand on that context; what the legal requirements are for wiretapping. Further, I also wanted to give readers (you) something to think about: what’s the difference between a backdoor and having the ability to “wiretap” … [Read more...]
Concerned with What Data Facebook Has Stored About You?
If you’re one of the 2.8B people that uses Facebook and are at least somewhat privacy-centric, I urge you to check out Facebook’s new Off-Facebook Activity settings option. For me, it was found within the Your Facebook Information section. There wasn’t too much within it for me, but The Hacker News’s Mohit Kumar wrote about his experience with this and there were over 1,000 … [Read more...]
Why Multifactor Authentication Beats Voice Biometrics
At the annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, Pindrop shared the results of a recent study on voice biometric authentication. The research tracked 122 speakers in six languages (Italian, English, German, French, Dutch and Spanish), and found that the error rates of voice biometrics could double from 4%- to 8% in two-years. This data emphasizes the need for multifactor … [Read more...]
WatchGuard Product Releases
WatchGuard recently announced the General Availability of major new releases of both the Fireware operating system and WatchGuard Dimension, both of which are now available to download at the software center. These releases provide increased visibility across the entire network for distributed enterprises and small and midsize businesses (SMBs). I was in Europe last week at a … [Read more...]
