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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on Security

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. 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.

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Best Enterprise VPN Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

One longtime cybersecurity solution for small teams up to global enterprise networks is virtual private networks (VPN). VPNs offer clients an encrypted access channel to remote networks through a tunneling protocol and can obfuscate the client’s IP address. Also Read: Tokenization vs. Encryption: Pros and Cons.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

Chatting with Snowden on an encrypted IM connection, I joked that the NSA cafeteria menu probably has code names for menu items. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for. I told Greenwald that he and Laura Poitras should be sending large encrypted files of dummy documents back and forth every day.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

Recent guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on disclosure and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) make clear that cybersecurity is no longer a niche topic, but a concern significant enough to warrant the oversight of corporate boards of directors. Adopting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

” Over the next few weeks, chats from encrypted Telegram, and other communications were leaked. And so, a lot of times once the encryption occurs, that's really the final stage. They found what they believed to be sensitive data and then they perform the encryption. In a moment, we’ll find out. What's the first step?

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Hammond: I tend to explain Capture the Flag is sort of gamified cybersecurity education. Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. So, that’s the military. What if, like me, you’re not part of the military? Vamosi: Wait.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Shall We Play A Game?

ForAllSecure

Hammond: I tend to explain Capture the Flag is sort of gamified cybersecurity education. Included with that question was an encrypted text file which John downloaded then wrote a simple python script to decrypt it. So, that’s the military. What if, like me, you’re not part of the military? Vamosi: Wait.