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DoD Still Can’t Get its Security Ducks in a Row

Five years after the Pentagon demanded that every weapon system include the requirement that it be able to function in the face of Russian and Chinese cyber attacks, many major weapons systems don’t even include cybersecurity as a key performance parameter, never mind actually working under those conditions. This means that all our adversaries need […]

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NY Shield Act and Inadvertent Disclosure

About a year ago the Governor of New York signed the SHIELD act into law. Among other things, the law broadened the definition of a breach to include ACCESS to the data, not just stealing it. It also broadened the definition of personally identifiable information. Notice that no one talks about non-public personal information any […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 22, 2020

AG Says They Unlocked Shooter’s iPhone Without Needing Apple to Hack Their Security For a couple of decades the FBI and Justice Department has been saying that software vendors need to insert backdoors into their security software to make it easier for the government to hack it if they want to. One high profile case […]

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Internet Voting – Safe or Not?

If you ask the Department of Homeland Security, FBI or the Election Assistance Commission, they say Slow down, bucko. Securing Internet voting is hard to do. Very hard to do. Internet voting falls into several categories: Sending ballots digitally to voters Sending ballots digitally, marking them only and printing out the results to return the […]

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