You spend the better part of every day working closely with colleagues who share the same goals.  You’re all loyal, hardworking and smart.  Well, mostly all.  If there’s a social engineer in your office you get just two out of three. Social engineers work hard and they’re smart – they’re just not on your side. [...]

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A famous bank robber was once asked “Why do you rob banks?”. “‘Cause that’s where the money is.” he replied. Today he might be talking about information instead.

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89 Percent of Survey Respondents Have No Protection Against Over-The-Shoulder Eavesdroppers Hunt Valley, Md. – December 13, 2011– Oculis Labs, a developer of data privacy software that protects mobile and desktop computers from visual eavesdroppers, today released results from its “Mobile Worker Privacy” survey focused on identifying privacy concerns when using laptop computers for mobile work. [...]

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The 5 top security threats to laptop users. Why they are bad, what can happen, and what you can do about it.

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Beware inside the Hive

> The observation “People are like bees”  caught my eye in a book I’m reading by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman called Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch.  The gist of the full quote was that the security systems that people set up are similar to bee hives.  Bees are [...]

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