Doing security at a university is both interesting and scary. Because you have to provide both an open environment for research and instruction, and enterprise level security for the business…
DetailsThe number of breaches that have occurred in the past 12 months (Target, U of MD, etc.) serve as a warning that traditional defense mechanisms are not working. I ask…
DetailsEmployees have no expectation of privacy at work, right? And this is especially true for government employees working on government computers on government networks? Right? I mean, the log on…
DetailsConsidering that many vendors and online services are rushing to encrypt their user communications and other network traffic in the wake of the Edward Snowden revelations, it’s surprising that Twitter…
DetailsIn Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass” Humpty Dumpty tells Alice [the one of Alice in Wonderland], “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to…
DetailsWhile Ukraine gears up for a military offensive in response to the referendum in Crimea voting to secede and join Russia, attackers on both sides of the border have already…
DetailsThere are tellers of tales and debunkers of myths. An organization needs both. An example: the March of Dimes needed people to have the vision of eradicating Polio. Its very…
DetailsAttackers don’t need special tools or malware to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. A recent DDoS attack that brought down a site involved 162,000 WordPress sites and a documented feature. A…
DetailsThe Vietnamese national who sold criminals access to the Experian-owned database containing information on 200 million US Consumers pleaded guilty to running an identity theft service, according to a report by…
DetailsIreland is hoping US-based security companies will try their luck by establishing their European hubs in the island nation. Calling itself the “Silicon Valley of Europe” with security companies such…
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