November 2010

Monday, 29 November 2010 is Cyber Monday. What is Cyber Monday you might ask? Personally I had to get my terms straight between Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Black Monday. Here’s a short refresher: Black Friday is the Friday after the US Thanksgiving holiday when the Christmas holiday shopping season unofficially kicks off. It’s called black, because this is the

I recently blogged about Firesheep, the Firefox extension that can be used to compromise a secure connection to a website that you have connected to from an open Wi-Fi hotspot. The truth is the vulnerability that Firesheep exposes is not new, but little was done about it. Not so anymore, help is on the way. HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

Entrust President and CEO Bill Conner was center stage for the world’s top law enforcement officials this week. On Monday, Conner spoke to global security leaders during INTERPOL’s 79th General Assembly in Doha, Qatar. Conner emphasized the seriousness of the current identity fraud threat landscape, and also outlined the multipurpose smartcard credentialsEntrust recently developed to properly secure the digital identities of INTERPOL