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This week, Kaspersky Labs published detailed information on what it calls the Equation Group -- almost certainly the NSA -- and its abilities to embed spyware deep inside computers, gaining pretty much t...
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As many know, the White House held a summit on cybersecurity and consumer protection at Stanford University today. In addition to President Obama, a number of CEOs also spoke on privacy and security iss...
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On February 5, 2015, Anthem---a health insurance company---announced that hackers had been able to access records containing tens of millions of names, birthdays, Social Security numbers, addresses and e...
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"By some estimates Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo only give us access to around 5% of the content on the Web." The Dark Web is vast and difficult to search -- you have to know where you are going to g...
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As Wells noted yesterday the Administration released its report on the implementation of Presidential Policy Directive (PPD)-28. I am still reading through the documents, which include twelve new agency-...
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At the top of the hour, Robert S. Litt, General Counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence will speak at the Brookings Institution.
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This interesting article on the NYPD's use of data analytics came across my desk the other day. Here is the abstract:
The New York City Police Department’s Lower Manhattan Security Coordination Center i...
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What War in the Cyber Age Looks Like. "To the young Syrian rebel fighter, the Skype message in early December 2013 appeared to come from a woman in Lebanon, named Iman Almasri, interested in his cause. ...
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A law the government cites as authority for the bulk collection of millions of Americans’ communications records---Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act---expires unless Congress extends it by Memorial Day week...
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That question has taken on new significance after the Paris terrorist attacks, which have stoked fears that militants in Europe might exploit the Visa Waiver Program (VWP)—under which citizens of 38 coun...
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On Tuesday, January 27, 2015, the Federal Trade Commission released a staff report on cybersecurity and the Internet of Things.
Although as a staff report, the report has no binding authority on anyone,...
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You go off line for 3 days and so much worth noting happens! Here are some recent developments:
DHS Ooops. Responding to a FOIA request regarding Operation Aurora (a Chinese attack on Google) DHS acci...