The LastNews (!) You Want to Hear is LastPass Hacked. Now What?
Password management service LastPass notified users their servers may have been hacked. I take a minute break, let it sink in. Yes, this is the one (Last) uber-super secure system you trust with ALL your passwords. Ouch. But despite the hacking, LastPass says users who had a strong master password in the first place are [...]
Security Is In The Air – Are The SaaS Vendors Ready?
RSA Conference 2009 is currently underway at San Francisco and Information Security experts from all over the world are converging at this event to discuss all things security. There are a number of folks who are talking about Cloud Security during this event. In fact, a new initiative called Cloud Security Alliance is going to be launched [...]
Where is Cloud Police?
If you happen to be the unfortunate victim of someone breaking into your home (and I pray that you never are), the first recourse is pretty much the same around the world – you would put a call in to your local emergency services, i.e. 911 (or 000 as it is over here in Australia). [...]
SaaS – Password Sharing and Piracy
Image by orangeek via Flickr Last week, I wrote a post in which I argued that SaaS will reduce software piracy. In this post, I am going to talk about an issue that is culturally important in many countries. Rather, I am going to raise an important question which SaaS vendors should ponder as they plan to extend [...]
