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Cybersecurity Awareness Month – Accept My Challenge

25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Matthew Rosenquist

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month.  It is a time to consider the risks we accept everyday when using computers and what we can do to better protect ourselves.  I have a challenge for each and every person.  Something that will help people ind...

What Brave Browser Jungle Touch means | Logo Tells it All

25 Oct 2020 1 minute read 4 comments Cryptofivers

If you have not started using the Brave browser, you are missing out on the freedom of choosing what ads to access and which not to in privacy. You might be addicted to the traditional browsers but Brave comes with benefits. However, you should look...

Toshiba aims to generate $3 billion revenue through quantum crypto advancements by 2030

19 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments ircrp

The Tokyo based Toshiba Corporation is currently contributing and investing towards advancements of the cryptographic solutions driven by quantum computing. The company is expecting the cyber security sector to grow by some $12 billion to solve the d...

Apple T2 Chip Vulnerability Challenges the Industry

18 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Recent verified reports highlight exploitable vulnerabilities in Apple’s security chip that cannot be patched!  The announcement adds to the growing concerns and shifting perceptions about hardware security. Hardware-based security has pros and cons...

CryptoSmarts 4: The Best Free Password Managers

16 Oct 2020 7 minute read 7 comments MintDice.com

CryptoSmarts 4 MintDice is proud to bring you the fourth part of the CryptoSmarts series, a 100% unbiased/non-affiliate paid article set that will focus on relatively simple ways you can boost your privacy, take power away from overbearing government...

Should Governments be Responsible for Protecting the Internet?

13 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist

Does society want governments to take on the role of protecting the Internet? Should the Internet be considered a Critical Infrastructure and therefore be overseen by governments? Will such actions undermine privacy and liberty or will it be demande...

Sophisticated Andriod Ransomware MalLocker With New String

10 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments NRWRecords

  Cybersecurity researchers at Microsoft have detected a risky new string of MalLocker, an ever-changing Smartphone ransomware descent that has swamped in the wild ever since least 2014.   The new version is notably designed to cover the ransom dema...

What is an API and an API key?

9 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments jolychristophe

In the crypto world we are often asked for an API key, in order to be able to drive a program from another program. What is an API? An API stands for Application Programming Interface. This term comes from development, it designates a program that wi...

Google Play - Will You Sort Out This Security Garbage Please? Play Protect!

6 Oct 2020 2 minute read 4 comments XTRM™

I am going to make this as brief as possible - and could quite easily go off on a ranting tirade in text format - and guess who is responsible for my rantiness again? Yes it is Google... namely Google Play - This issue is one that ties directly in wi...

Phishing Just Became More Dangerous

2 Oct 2020 1 minute read 2 comments Matthew Rosenquist

What do you get when you combine phishing + AI + worm capabilities?  Trouble that moves fast!  The latest social engineering attacks hijack victims email response messages to send trusted phishing to others as a means of rapidly spreading. We have b...