Orphaned Data in the Cloud Researchers at security firm vpnMentor found an unsecured S3 bucket with passport, tax forms, background checks, job applications and other sensitive data for thousands of employees of British consultancies. Many of the firms involved are no longer in business. The researchers reported this to Amazon and the UK’s Computer Emergency […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not a done deal yet, but it is a very interesting development and one, if it holds, that could have significant impact on a lot of countries, including the U.S. Over the last few years, a number of countries have enacted laws that allow their intelligence apparatuses to override many privacy laws and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD continues to take actions that lead us to believe that they are very serious about the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification process. This process will require that all DoD contractors ultimately get a third party cybersecurity certification on an annual basis if they want to continue to be part of the DoD food chain. When […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]To call this big brother is watching would be polite. Universities are using apps on students phones and either Bluetooth beacons or WiFi to track students location including class attendance and, I would guess, how much time their spend in local bars. The attendance part is to “encourage” students to attend class. Students who do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the 9-11 attacks on The World Trade Center Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA, Congress quickly and without much discussion, passed the Patriot Act, the single biggest spying operation likely ever. Under the Patriot Act, the government was able to collect information on Internet traffic, mostly of foreigners. The amount of data that […]
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