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Nov 17, 2016

Orwell: The Surveillance Game That Makes You Big Brother

CNET may have a prospective Christmas gift for you. As its post says, "Big Brother has arrived — and it's

Nov 16, 2016

IBM’s Watson Is Taking a Crash Course in Cybersecurity

InfoWorld reported yesterday on how IBM's Watson is doing in his crash course on cybersecurity. Cognitive security technology such as

Nov 15, 2016

How Many Times Would A Hacker Need to Guess Your Password?

Interesting question asked by a post on Naked Security. Could your password withstand 100,000,000,000,000 guesses, the kind of scrutiny it

Nov 14, 2016

NIST Issues Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals

The title pretty much says it all. The November 2016 release of the NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology)

Nov 10, 2016

Review and Discount Code for Our Locked Down Cybersecurity Book

Thanks to our friend and colleague Jared Correia for posting a very nice review of Locked Down: Practical Information Security

Nov 09, 2016

Lawyers Are Clueless About Whether They are Using Cloud Computing

As all programmers are fond of saying, "Garbage in, garbage out." So when I read my friend Bob Ambrogi's blog

Nov 08, 2016

Edward Snowden Schools Donald Trump in E-Discovery

Fortune reported on a statement made by Donald Trump on Sunday. He said of Hillary Clinton's FBI review of e-mails

Nov 07, 2016

NIST Releases Draft E-mail Security Guidelines

SC Media published a post last week advising that the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) and the National

Nov 03, 2016

75% of Healthcare Industry Hit with Malware

As SC Magazine reported earlier this week, the healthcare vertical is at particular risk from ransomware. This is just one

Nov 02, 2016

FTC Releases Data Breach Response Guide

Got a breach? The Federal Trade Commission's new Data Breach Response: A Guide for Business outlines the steps to take

Nov 01, 2016

Court is Not Amused by the Cox “F*** the DMCA” Attitude

Thanks to longtime RTL reader Tamber Ray for sending along an entertaining post about an e-discovery opinion in Virginia. The

Oct 31, 2016

Ransomware is Booming – and We’re Paying the Piper

As a Wall Street Journal blog reported, ransomware has exploded, the attacks more sophisticated as hackers are encouraged by the