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National Cybersecurity Alliance advocates ‘shared responsibility’ for securing the Internet

The Last Watchdog

Claire McCaskill by Russian intelligency agency hackers, as she runs for re-election, underscores the need for each individual and organization to take online privacy and security as a core part of our everyday lives. Related: Using ‘gamification’ for security training. A large retailer may spend millions on cyber security.

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Russians Shut Down Huge Card Fraud Ring

Krebs on Security

Cybersecurity experts say the raid included the charging of a major carding kingpin thought to be tied to dozens of carding shops and to some of the bigger data breaches targeting western retailers over the past decade. In 2006, Stroganov and an associate Gerasim Silivanon (a.k.a. authorities in 2017.

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Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure. Security is an enabling technology; it doesn't do anything by itself, but instead allows all sorts of things to be done. It released a study of the economic impact of DES in 2001. And this isn't the first time NIST has conducted economic impact studies.

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Council of the European Union Releases Draft Compromise Text on the Proposed EU Data Protection Regulation

Hunton Privacy

The Presidency proposes parallel amendment of Regulation 45/2001 (on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data by the Community) to bring the processing activities of European Union bodies within scope of the Proposed Regulation (Recital 14a, Article 2(b)). Scope of the Proposed Regulation.