The story starts with an innocent email from a supervisor,
colleague, or friend asking for your help. They tell you a tale
about how they need some gift cards for gifts to family, friends,
potential donors, etc...
We are inundated with information nowadays, from the tweets,
texts, TV, streaming, email, mentions, etc, etc. This hectic
lifestyle puts us into a mode of needing to respond as soon as
possible to any interruption or notice that happens in...
I'm writing to let you know of a change happening on June 27th,
2018 to our Central Authentication Service (CAS) front page. CAS is
used for a single place to sign in for many of our websites that we
use here at the IAS. We are...
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initiated, Please Confirm Attached Invoice. Open Invoice | Download
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What is having a Meltdown and
what does a Spectre have to do with it?
A vulnerability has been found in modern computer processors
(after 2009) that allows one program to steal data from another
program on the same computer. Computer programs are...
Krack stands for Key
Reinstallation
Attacks. It is an exploit against the
WPA2 protocol that preys on an issue in the protocol itself.
These are usually the worst kind of issues, because they affect
every...
On September 7, 2017, Equifax
CEO Rick Smith announced that on July 29, 2017 Equifax suffered
a data breach between May and July 2017. The breach may have
included the personal credit information of 143 million Americans,
including...
As a security professional, I spend a lot of my time making sure
that the bad guys aren't able to break in. I set up all the fancy
firewalls and anti-virus to keep us safe. But what happens when a
user unknowingly gives up...
