Cybersecurity

SECURITY NEWS THIS WEEK: A DECADE-OLD BLUETOOTH FLAW LEAVES COUNTLESS DEVICES EXPOSED

THIS WEEK MARKS the one-year anniversary of Equifax's very terrible, no good data breach that impacted 147 million Americans. We took an inside look at all the steps the company has taken since then to shore up its defenses—and whether it could possibly be enough, given the scope of the damage. And speaking of damage, we explained how to minimize yours by setting up better two-factor authentication on all of your online accounts.

What else, you ask? Plenty! Google finally implemented its name-and-shame strategy for Chrome, labeling all sites that use unencrypted HTTP connections—instead of secure HTTPS—as "Not Secure." Twitter instituted a cleanup of its own, banning scores of malicious apps from its platform.