It’s been a mighty interesting week in security. Kids learned about cryptography and received a visit from federal authorities at a special session at DefCon, McAfee is duking it out with other security vendors over Operation Shady Rat, facial recognition is stripping away what little is left of our privacy, and Microsoft is offering big bucks for anyone who comes up with a new security technology. Meanwhile, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox browser tool to make searches safer.
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Half-Pint Hackers and Rats in the Walls
Posted by: Richard Adhikari August 9, 2011 05:00 AMIt’s been a mighty interesting week in security. Kids learned about cryptography and received a visit from federal authorities at a special session at DefCon, McAfee is duking it out with other security vendors over Operation Shady Rat, facial recognition is stripping away what little is left of our privacy, and Microsoft is offering big bucks for anyone who comes up with a new security technology. Meanwhile, the Electronic Frontier Foundation has released HTTPS Everywhere, a Firefox browser tool to make searches safer.