Is there Another NSA Leaker? Updated
This morning a partial analysis of the NSA’s XKEYSCORE code was published in Germany. Jacob Applebaum, an evangelist for the The Onion Project (TOR), was one of the authors. The…
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Google has blocked access to a confidential Goldman Sachs email that was sent by mistake to a Gmail address. The financial company is now seeking a second court order to…
DetailsDo Increasing Worries About Insider Threats Mean it is Time to Take Another Look at DRM?
The encryption vendor SafeNet publishes a Breach Level Index that records actual reported incidents of data loss. Whilst the number of losses attributed to malicious outsiders (58%) exceeds those attributed…
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The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a new bill intended to strengthen the Federal Information Security Management Act on June 25. The bill heads to the Senate…
DetailsPayPal Apparently Enforcing Non-existent Laws
According to one of the founders of ProtonMail, a secure email startup, PayPal had suspended their account. A PayPal representative reportedly questioned the legality of an encrypted email solution. ProtonMail…
DetailsAre Former Government Cyber Experts Worth Their Consulting Fees?
Congressman Alan Grayson made waves last week when he sent letters to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association(SIFMA), the Consumer Bankers Association, and the Financial Services Roundtable assailing former…
DetailsFlorida Governor Signs Nation’s Toughest Data Breach Law
Florida Governor Rick Scott signed into a law what may be the nation’s broadest and stringent data breach law. The Florida Information Protection of 2014, which was signed last week,…
DetailsVarious Email Security Solutions Post Snowden
As predicted (by me) email encryption solutions are proliferating rapidly. All it took was a threat actor to appear on the scene. The first time I met Mark Rasch we…
DetailsMicrosoft Releases Preview of Interflow Info Exchange Platform
Microsoft launched a preview of a new security and threat information exchange platform to allow security professionals to share information about ongoing threats. Called Interflow, Microsoft’s threat sharing platform will…
DetailsNATO Should Stand Down From Apocalyptic Cyber Fears
Tallinn 2007 was indeed a wake up call for NATO. The massive amounts of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against websites, communications, and even Estonian Parliament members’ fax machines, arising…
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