The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Merit is an acronym for the Michigan Educational Research Information Triad. The first Cyber Range training and testing hub opened at Eastern Michigan University in late 2012. Other hubs followed at military bases, other state universities and even a high school and a non-profit community arts and tech center.

Cybersecurity 166

Cybersecurity Military Education Government 166

Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I paged through weekly reports, presentation slides from status meetings, and general briefings to educate visitors. It’s used to keeping this stuff behind multiple levels of security: gates with alarms, armed guards, safe doors, and military-grade cryptography. They were leaked in 2013, but most of them were from 2012 or before.)

Computer and Electronics 121

Computer and Electronics Encryption Government Privacy 121

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Compounding the problem, configuring Identity and Access Management (IAM) in the cloud can be difficult. I was one of 68 million Dropbox users that received an email last year asking me to reset my password because they found out that in 2012 they had lost our User IDs and hashed passwords.

Cloud 59

Cloud Encryption Data breaches Passwords 59