• Grammarly Breach Could Leave Users With Exposed Data

    Grammarly Breach Could Leave Users With Exposed Data

    Who doesn’t love Grammarly?  I mean, it literally tells you when you’ve spelled anything incorrectly.  Anything.  And it also tells you where to put commas, and where not to put commas.  But now, there might be a reason not to love Grammarly.  The copyediting app has a major security hole that is leaving users exposed. …

  • FBI Chief Wants Less Encryption on Your Smartphone – But Why?

    FBI Chief Wants Less Encryption on Your Smartphone – But Why?

    The FBI is still concerned about phone encryption. And maybe not in the way that you would think.  The FBI wants less encryption on your phone, where you, as a consumer, should want more (or at least status quo).  During a cybersecurity conference in New York, the current chief – Christopher Wray – indicated that…

  • Democrats Pushing a Bill That Could Fine Credit Reporting Agencies for Security Breach

    Democrats Pushing a Bill That Could Fine Credit Reporting Agencies for Security Breach

    We all still remember the Equifax data breach this past year.  And some of us are still reeling from it.  What’s interesting to me about the whole thing is that Equifax, aside from some bad PR, has walked away from this relatively unscathed.  But there are two Democratic Senators who are looking to change this. …