Schneier on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

I didn’t know either of them, but I have been writing about cryptography, security, and privacy for decades. 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. It made sense. Very probably.

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Computer and Electronics Encryption Government Privacy 129

IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

Data breaches. million) Wyoming Department of Health leaking data online (164,021) Maine government website displayed mental health patients’ confidential information (unknown) Israel: Private patient cases of deceased psychologist found on the street (unknown) Contact tracing data breach exposes health information of Pennsylvanians (72,000).

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics Healthcare 114

eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Immergut denied the defendant’s motion to suppress emails and evidence derived from a warrantless search of Defendant’s workplace email account, finding “any expectation of privacy in Defendant’s work email was objectively unreasonable under the military’s computer-use policies in effect at his workplace.”.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 10, 2018

» Related Stories Episode 100: Estonia’s Former CIO talks about engineering a secure electronic vote Fitness apps: Good for your health, not so much for military security Episode 101: The Dystopian IoT looks a lot like the Printer Ink Aisle and City of Atlanta Employees phished on Rogue Wi-Fi. Read the whole entry. »

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Authentication Computer and Electronics Military IoT 40

IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Russian military accessed Chancellor Angela Merkel’s emails in 2015 hack (unknown). Advanced Computer Software Group exposed data of 190 law firms (10,000). Tesla has been getting rid of computers without wiping the hard drives (unknown). Scott Disick plans to sue rehab facility for privacy breach (1).

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Data breaches Ransomware Computer and Electronics e-Delivery 145

ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Hollywood Studios spent a decade creating a robust hardware certification process that includes military grade encryption with a complicated set of keys, all to protect the latest blockbuster releases. Vamosi: In this day and age, piracy of digital motion pictures is not supposed to happen.

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Encryption Marketing IT Sales 52

Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2024

Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geo-locate devices. In essence, Google’s WPS computes the user’s location and shares it with the device. Image: Shutterstock.

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Computer and Electronics Privacy Military Access 341

Data Matters

MAY 29, 2018

should understand that “the costs to them… will be so high that they will simply consign all their cyberwarfare plans to their computer memories to gather electronic dust.”. Consistent with his background in arms control and military affairs, this op-ed reflects a focus on the national security aspects of cybersecurity.

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