by Alex W. | Oct 30, 2013 | Cybersecurity, Government large and small
Over-classification in government continues to restrict information sharing according to a report by the US Department of Defense Inspector General. Balance in Information Security I’ve written previously about over-classification and why it needs to be actively...
by Alex W. | Sep 26, 2013 | Big data, Crime, Cybersecurity, Fraud, Identity
Cyber Identity theft service sold personal information on US citizens by compromising multinational consumer and business data aggregators An identity theft service that sells Social Security numbers, birth records, credit and background reports on millions of US...
by Alex W. | Sep 10, 2013 | Community and Society, Government large and small, Identity
The Four Corners program that aired tonight “In Google We Trust” was interesting if a little alarmist as these things sometimes are. But it did make some good points about privacy in the information age. There was an interesting piece of information about...
by Alex W. | Sep 6, 2013 | Crime, Cybersecurity, Government large and small
Have the NSA and GCHQ been building vulnerabilities into commercial encryption products? If this is true, another argument for open source software has been made. Articles in the New York Times and the Guardian alleged that the N.S.A. has been deliberately weakening...
by Alex W. | Aug 30, 2013 | Cybersecurity, Government large and small, Organisations, Resilience
News that the New York Times was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army is interesting not because of the fact that NYT was hacked by the hacking group, but by the method of gaining access. According to this article, information security at the NYT fell over because...
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