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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails

Krebs on Security

has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. Some of the exposed emails dated back to 2008; others were as recent as the present day. The Minnesota-based Internet provider U.S. Internet Corp.

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News alert: NCA’s Data Privacy Week webinars highlight data protection for consumers, businesses

The Last Watchdog

Throughout the week, NCA will emphasize the critical significance of digital privacy for both consumers and businesses through a series of educational webinars featuring experts from various industries. “Knowing how to safeguard your personal information has never been more important than it is today. Give Data Brokers the Slip!

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Educating today’s information professionals to meet tomorrow’s challenges

IG Guru

Franks The Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) degree was launched in August 2008 in what is now the School of Information at San José State University. The post Educating today’s information professionals to meet tomorrow’s challenges appeared first on IG GURU.

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GUEST ESSAY: Restore Us Institute (RUI) aims to protect Americans from online harms and crimes

The Last Watchdog

Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to promote inherently insecure, nascent Internet technology to be the world’s primary global information infrastructure for all the world’s communications, content, and commerce. Government policymakers decided in the 1990s to de facto nationally abdicate governing online.

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Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights

John Battelle's Searchblog

Of course, were such a hypothesis true, one might imagine that the over percentage of GDP represented by government workers would have gone *down* over the past few decades. For example, check out this chart of what’s growing in our government, and what’s not: Aha! No wonder 2008 was such a (continuing) disaster.

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Day two at OSNBC 2008

ChiefTech

I missed the morning of day two at Online Social Networking and Business Collaboration (I was attending a seminar on MySource Matrix ) but ended up sharing lunch with two Government 2.0 innovators from the speakers line up, Phillip Bower from Centrelink and Dheeraj Chowdhury from the NSW Department of Education (see below).

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Purple Lambert, a new malware of CIA-linked Lambert APT group

Security Affairs

” The Lambert APT (aka Longhorn APT ) has been active since at least 2008, but its first samples were spotted in 2014. According to the firm, the US cyber spies are targeting various industry sectors and government agencies. Symantec believes Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011.