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Quinn Emanuel Law Firm Reports Fifth-Party Data Breach

Law firms getting breached is, unfortunately, no longer big news. Law firms Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, Loeb & Loeb and Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher all reported breaches to the California attorney general in July. Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner also reported a breach recently. All of these are very large firms. Imagine […]

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As Governments Work to Ban Encryption, Cracks in Secret Encryption Become Public

While legislators in a variety of countries are trying very hard to ban encryption, vulnerabilities in existing encryption implementations are surfacing. While none of the proposed encryption bans are laws yet in the U.S., it doesn’t mean that people aren’t trying. More importantly, companies have for years thought that security by obscurity is a good […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 21, 2023

Well That is a Bit of an Oops A Google employee uploaded a list of 5,600 Virus Total customer administrators to Virus Total itself, making it visible to anyone. Among the users were admins from the NSA, Pentagon, FBI. UK Ministry of Defense and ministries in Germany, Japan, Qatar, Turkey, Frances and a dozen other […]

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ChatGPT and Data Protection Laws

Things are moving very quickly in the AI/Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) business. This is a super-competitive world between say Google, Microsoft, Meta, IBM and many others with – more to come. But there are still privacy laws to deal with and a court system that is ill-prepared to even fully understand the problem. There are […]

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TSA Wants to Expand Use of Facial Rec to Hundreds of Airports

The TSA is piloting the use of facial recognition to all 400+ airports they operate at within the next decade. The current pilot, at 25 airports, is supposedly voluntary, at least now, but likely people who are not familiar with the process will not think that it is voluntary. The process seems straight forward. YOU […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending June 30, 2023

Ex-FBI Employee Sentenced to 46 Months for Taking Classified Docs Home In a case similar to the one that an ex-president is facing, ex-FBI agent Kendra Kingsbury was sentenced on two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and the DoJ says that she removed 386 […]

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