Claudiu's Bad Security Blog

Have you ever come across a site that takes great pains to tell you exactly the kind of password you should be using, with what seems to be a potpourri of creative ideas for arriving at a string of characters guaranteed to be impossible to memorize?

The new role of Big Tech has created the urgent need for ethical companies to take a clear stand In J.R.R.

Despite the natural impulse to treat them as a lost cause, there's still a lot we can do to limit, reduce, or even prevent the damage.

As we saw last year by simply perusing headlines, fraud in Canada is no longer a sideshow, it’s a full-blown epidemic.

Way back at the turn of the century, Microsoft’s “10 Immutable Laws of IT Security” became a cornerstone of cybersecurity education, at least for nerds.

Over the past few months, we’ve witnessed two major cybersecurity incidents: first at CDK Global, and more recently, at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR).

When your data leaks through the fingers of companies that should have known better, they send letters.

By Claudiu Popa, for the KnowledgeFlow Cybersafety Foundation Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner has floated a bold idea: a Children’s Privacy Code designed to rein in digital platforms and protect young users.

Synopsis: While every news outlet out there has some kind of bias towards the militarization of Google's AI tech for cyberwarfare and national security, it surprisingly turns out to be that same technology - often accused of bias - that offers a sober view

Remember when driving was about enjoying the open road, making questionable mixtapes, and (maybe) reading a paper map?

Welcome to 2025, where technology has become an inescapable force shaping every aspect of our lives.

We’re living in an era of intriguing tech advances, where AI can write your emails, cryptocurrency can fuel entire economies, and quantum computing is set to (in the medium-term future) upend what we thought was (im)possible.

Every year, pundits, experts and marketers take a crack at creating forecasts that leverage fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to get attention and exposure.

In an era where data breaches have become an all-too-common occurrence, the actions that organizations take after discovering a breach can significantly impact both the affected individuals and the broader business sector.

The greatest benefit of spending a life in tech is hindsight over the alluring hype cycles that periodically captivate the business world.