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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Nor are we necessarily talking about the customized encryption used by large business enterprises to protect their operations. After all, we are not talking about protecting the Nation's nuclear launch codes.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Although most people think of ransomware as a dodgy application that encrypts data and holds it for ransom, the concept is much more heterogeneous than that. The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked.

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Cloud Bucket Vulnerability Management in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Since 2006, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the leading provider of cloud computing services. To mitigate the risk of a breach, secure your organization’s IAM permissions and policy, utilize GCP virtual private cloud (VPC) service controls, and encrypt your storage objects. Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Spotlight Podcast: Dr. Zulfikar Ramzan on RSA’s Next Act: Security Start-Up

The Security Ledger

The company which was acquired by storage giant EMC back in 2006 and then became a part of Dell when that company acquired EMC in 2015 re-emerges as an independent company this week, more than six months after it was acquired by a group of investors led by Symphony Technology Group.

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Spotlight Podcast: CTO Zulfikar Ramzan on RSA’s Next Act: Security Start-Up

The Security Ledger

The company which was acquired by storage giant EMC back in 2006 and then became a part of Dell when that company acquired EMC in 2015 re-emerges as an independent company this week, more than six months after it was acquired by a group of investors led by Symphony Technology Group.

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This is the old ChiefTech blog.: Twitter: A my-way social computer

ChiefTech

Ive wondered if in fact what is needed is a way to encrypt tweets so I can use one Twitter identity but keep some tweets secret, but I think fundamentally Twitter only really works because its social nature creates diversity, which in mind is a major attraction. But its a different, more restrained Twitter experience.

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