Now that Sony Pictures Entertainment has cancelled the release of the movie “The Interview” (to the chagrin of the Hollywood cognoscenti) the conventional wisdom is that Sony was eye to eye with…
DetailsAnchorage Community Mental Health Services (ACMHS) operates a small chain of 5 mental health clinics in and around the Anchorage, Alaska area. Like other medical facilities, they use computers for the…
DetailsMy name is Bond. James Bond. We know that those words will appear in the upcoming Sony movie SPECTRE. We actually know a lot more about the upcoming movie with…
DetailsIf you are on the south side of the Peace Bridge in Buffalo, New York and are arrested by the Buffalo Police Department, the cops can’t search the contents of…
Details(UPDATED) CISO’s and their teams are not just producers of risk analyses and assessments. We are also consumers of them. They come from many sources. The main four are: Responses from…
DetailsIt hasn’t been a good few weeks for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Their networks were taken down, employees threatened, e-mails exposed, salary and personal information disseminated. Its stars and executives have…
DetailsAt a recent computer security and privacy conference here in Washington, Judge Richard Posner made headlines when he announced that privacy was “overrated” and existed mainly for the purposes of…
DetailsImagine if someone hacked your home wireless router. Imagine if they then changed the settings to open up a separate channel on your router – a channel that allowed them…
DetailsTwo recent cases, one in the United States and the other in Germany, point out the problem of how we determine the appropriate punishment for computer hackers. To a great extent, we both…
DetailsIt all sounds like the plot of a major Hollywood blockbuster. Dave Skylark of the TV show “Skylark Tonight” and his producer Aaron Rapoport are recruited by the CIA to…
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