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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on Security

Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes. The thing is, that distinction between military and consumer products largely doesn't exist.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a.

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US Army stopped using floppy disks as storage for SACCS system that manages nuclear weapons arsenal

Security Affairs

The news is quite curious, the US military will no longer use 8-inch floppy disks in an antiquated computer (SACCS) to manage nuclear weapons arsenal. The use of 8-inch floppy disks was also confirmed by a report published by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO). ” One of the military working for Lt. .”

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Capturing Paper Documents - Best Practices and Common Questions

AIIM

Wider and more profitable opportunities exist for organizations to bridge the gap between paper and digital media, especially in traditionally paper-intensive fields such as financial services, healthcare, or government. For example, the top right corner of a form may be a consistently structured customer address block.

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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. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

The victim was one of the most important leaders in the field of security and defensive military grade Naval ecosystem in Italy. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna.

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes join The Hacker Mind to talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government to get together and work through problems. Could we hack into an airplane, for example. And the fact that hackers are thinking about this now is a very good thing. Or a satellite in space? Turns out we can.