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Cyber is Cyber is Cyber

Lenny Zeltser

If you’re in the business of safeguarding data and the systems that process it, what do you call your profession? Computer security, perhaps? This might be because the industry continues to embrace the lexicon used in government and military circles, where cyber reigns supreme. Are you in cybersecurity?

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. It definitely had an effect on me. Definitely.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

So I'd say it's definitely possible. So I definitely think it's possible. CBS: A computer security researcher was kept off a plane for suggesting on social media that he could hack into the planes control system. And the GAO pointed out that that, you know, there were exposures identified as part of it. Here’s CBS news.

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Supply Chain Security is the Whole Enchilada, But Who’s Willing to Pay for It?

Krebs on Security

-based tech firm to secretly embed tiny computer chips into electronic devices purchased and used by almost 30 different companies. The chips were alleged to have spied on users of the devices and sent unspecified data back to the Chinese military. In a nutshell, the Bloomberg story claims that San Jose, Calif.