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DHS Issues New Rules For Searching Electronic Devices

In 2015 some 380 million international travelers arrived in the U.S. and only 8,503 of those travelers had their electronic devices searched – only .002 percent.  That is a pretty small number. In 2016 there were 390 million international arrivals and CBP examined the devices of 19,033 of them – a little more than double […]

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White House Plans To Ban Staffers and Guests From Using Personal Cell Phones

Several months ago the White House floated a trial balloon about banning the use of personal cell phones by staffers in the West Wing due to security concerns.  You may remember that John Kelly was using his personal cell phone for government business and it was owned by hackers for six months before he figured […]

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Windows and Linux to Patch Major Intel Chip Flaw

UPDATE: Google’s Project Zero released information about the flaw and attacks as reports and speculation escalated (see here).  Reporters, including this one, are just learning the details of this.  An FAQ about the attack, which says that it affects Intel, AMD and ARM processors is available here.     It does, they say, affect every microprocessor […]

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The Price of a Breach? Bankruptcy?

21st Century Oncology,  who bills itself as the world’s largest operator of cancer treatment centers with 179 locations, suffered a breach in 2015, losing control of 2+ million patient records. According to law firm Motley Rice, they found out about the breach when the FBI notified them – not a great way to start your […]

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