Security

Multi-factor authentication goes mainstream

Goodbye username plus password, hello smartphone plus thumbprint

Reviewing incident response plans for data risk preparedness

Don’t let holes in your incident response plan review open gaping vulnerabilities in how you act on security events.

China is working on a big data Minority Report system

Forget China’s deeply creepy Social Credit System, the country’s new pre-crime project is far scarier.

DOJ appeals New York court order in favor of Apple

DOJ says it cannot try to unlock a seized iPhone without risking erasing data

Security, encryption experts: Congress is the answer to Apple v. FBI

Boeing’s self-cleaning aircraft bathroom lets you use loo without touching anything (mostly)

Boeing airplane loo uses UV lighting to clean surfaces few will have to touch anyway

New Juniper Security CTO promises open framework for software defined network security

Resources abound to make cloud services more secure

Learning to securely develop and use cloud services

Verizon Wireless settles FCC complaint about supercookie tracking

The company will give customers more information about tracking and pay a $1.35 million fine

OS X hit by first ever piece of ransomware