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Why Trusting Any Organization With Your Data is Dicey at Best

The government would like us to believe that if they have unfettered access to all the data that they want, it will be secure.  The evidence does not support that. This past week, a terrorism database called World-Check was leaked accidentally (At least I think it was an accident).  It contains information on about 2 […]

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The Year Of The Voter List Breach

Early this year, we learned of a voter database of 191 million U.S. voters was found, unprotected on the Internet.   The list contained name, address, political party, telephone and voting record  (not who you voted for, but in which general elections and primaries). For people who want to keep that information private, such as […]

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A hacker called thedarkoverlord is offering 3 unique medical databases for sale at prices ranging from 151 bitcoins to 607 bitcoins. Deep Dot Web got to look at images of the database, shown below. One database has 48,000 records from a healthcare company in Missouri. The second database has 210,000 records from a healthcare care […]

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Blackberry WAS the Gold Standard For Security – Or Was It?

A specialized unit inside mobile firm BlackBerry has for years enthusiastically helped intercept user data — including BBM messages — to help in hundreds of police investigations in dozens of countries, a CBC News investigation reveals For years we always thought Blackberry was the security standard that everyone else was measured by.  In April we […]

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