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Section 215 Of The Patriot Act Has Expired

As expected, Congress was not able to come to a consensus regarding renewing three provisions of the Patriot Act, which expired about 30 minutes ago. The three provisions – bulk data collection of metadata of all phones calls in the U.S., roving wiretap warrants (warrants on people, rather than a particular phone number) and the […]

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The Cost Of Not Baking In Security In At The Beginning

Wired is reporting a giant dark web scheme to sell counterfeit coupons costing the consumer packaged goods industry tens of millions of dollars.  The scam is simple because no one thought that anyone would try it.  So no one added any security into the coupon chain.  Later, they bolted on a blacklist, but that is easily […]

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Another Health Care Provider Hacked

DC based Blue Cross affiliate CareFirst announced last week that, like other Blues, they had been breached.  Information on 1.1 million customers  was compromised.  The good news is that this breach did not include health information or credit card numbers.  CareFirst is the 3rd Blue Cross affiliate to announce they have been hacked recently (the […]

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