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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsThe 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…
DetailsAccording 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…
DetailsCongressman 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 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,…
DetailsAs 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 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…
DetailsTallinn 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…
DetailsThird-parties are an expansion of the corporate network. They’re a necessity providing a range of services which are better off outsourced than to try and do in-house. Often-times third-parties are…
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