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Sony Pictures CEO Interviewed By AP

Michael Lynton, Sony Pictures CEO, gave the AP the most extensive interview since the  attack. Among other things, Lynton said that the hackers “They came in the house, stole everything, then burned down the house.”  He said “They destroyed servers, computers, wiped them clean of all the data and took all the data.” More importantly, […]

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U.S. Central Command (Centcom) Gets Hacked

U.S. Central Command, responsible for the military’s activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and a number of other countries in that region was the victim of a hack earlier today. Centcom’s Twitter feed and You Tube channel were compromised and defaced. Twitter quickly disabled the feed but not before some charts and contact information for […]

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Enterprises Are Still Failing At The Security Basics

VentureBeat wrote an interesting item pointing out some of the obvious things that Target messed up.  Fixing these items won’t stop every attack, but it certainly would slow the attackers down. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court recently Target missed the ball on a few things.  Of course, at this point, these are […]

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Mitigating Over-Enthusiastic Airport Security

Katie Moussouris, formerly an executive at Microsoft and Symantec and now an executive at HackerOne, which as best as I can tell manages bug coordination with third parties for very large, well respected companies, tells a story about an over enthusiastic security person at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.  She was tapped for secondary […]

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