Tag Archives: Security

I’ve written a couple of posts about LastPass recently, both with praise for the way they are handling a potential security event. One might think that I’m a satisfied customer or even an investor but, in fact, I’d never heard … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I blogged about a company, LastPass, that takes security seriously and has well thought out procedures in place to protect its users. LastPass is a small company run by relatively young people who have perhaps a decade’s experience in … Continue reading →

By now, even the non-Geeks among us have heard of the Sony PSN and Online Entertainment break ins and the subsequent loss of personal information and perhaps credit card numbers of over a 100 million Sony customers. Sony admitted that … Continue reading →

Just as I predicted in my Two Tales post, Apple has responded to the consolidated.db brouhaha. And just as predicted by the serious commenters on the issue, Apple was not tracking users but merely caching data that helps with location … Continue reading →

Recently there’s been a lot of buzz about two events on the security/privacy frontier. In the first, researchers Pete Warden and Alasdair Allan discovered that the iPhone maintains a database, consolidated.db, that contains a table of cell sites and WiFi … Continue reading →