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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
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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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
Read MoreJan 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
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