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…
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…
DetailsWhat privacy rights do people have for data in the cloud – and more importantly, how can they assert them? A recent case out of New York answers that question…
DetailsEarlier this week, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial waded into the Stygian waters of the interplay between technology and the Fifth Amendment – determining for the first time whether a person…
DetailsOne of the most difficult decisions a CISO has to make is the one that says the organization suffered a data breach. A data breach starts a chain of events…
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…
DetailsIn a stunning unanimous decision, the United States Supreme Court ruled against the government finding that police generally need a warrant to search the data contents of a cell phone…
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