Ride the Lightning

Jan 31, 2017

Electronic Frontier Foundation, Part 2: The First 100 Days

After yesterday's post, I decided to run a follow-up. As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump talked about his first 100

Jan 30, 2017

Electronic Frontier Foundation: “Your Threat Model Just Changed”

I had missed an advertisement addressed to the technology community in several publications from the Electronic Freedom Foundation. It warns

Jan 26, 2017

DuckDuckGo Flying High on Privacy Concerns

Naked Security posted Tuesday about how much it likes DuckDuckGo as a search engine. I am happy to join that

Jan 25, 2017

Risk Based Security Releases 2016 Data Breach Report

Today, Risk Based Security released its annual Data Breach report for 2016. Here are a few of the findings: There

Jan 24, 2017

NIST Issues Two Important Publications

It is important to take a look at The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-160, System

Jan 23, 2017

WhatsApp Has No Back Door

There was quite the dustup last week as a coalition of some of the world's top researchers and cryptographers pled

Jan 19, 2017

ROSS AI Plus Wexis Bests Westlaw and Lexis Nexis Alone in Study

This post has been updated to change the title, the original version of which made an inaccurate implication: See Bob

Jan 18, 2017

Is Europe Preparing for SkyNet? Calls for Robot Kill Switches

CNN reported last week that European lawmakers have proposed that robots be equipped with emergency "kill switches" to prevent them

Jan 17, 2017

Leaked Law Firm Files Expose Flaw in Official Report Into Inmate's Death

Thanks to Dave Ries, I caught up with a story from CBSNEWS that happened last year involving a security flaw

Jan 16, 2017

Free Phishing Quizzes

As I have previously noted, a recent study showed that 91% of cyberattacks start with a phishing e-mail, in which

Jan 12, 2017

Three Chinese Men Indicted for Hacking Law Firms and Insider Trading

The Manhattan U.S. attorney's office unsealed a criminal indictment (press release here) December 27th against three Chinese men accused of

Jan 11, 2017

JPMorgan Sues Law Firm For Putting Data of Bank’s Clients at Risk

Law360 reported that JPMorgan Chase Bank NA sued law firm Korte & Wortman PA in Florida federal court on December