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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
Read MoreNov 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Read MoreOct 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
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