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Security News for the Week Ending July 30,2021

Internet Rot Causes Porn on Legit Sites News sites like New York Magazine and others accidentally displayed porn because they had links to the old and now gone Vidme video sharing site. Vidme went out of business in 2017 and a porn site bought the domain. Since there is no easy way for web site […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 15, 2019

Bugcrowd Paid Over $500,000 in Bug Bounties in Just One Week Bugcrowd, the crowd-sourced bug bounty management company, paid out over $500,000 in just one week for bugs that researchers found and paid out $1.6 million in October to over 550 hackers, representing 1,800 submissions.  Of those, 327 were categorized as priority 1.  These payouts […]

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DHS Issues New Rules For Searching Electronic Devices

In 2015 some 380 million international travelers arrived in the U.S. and only 8,503 of those travelers had their electronic devices searched – only .002 percent.  That is a pretty small number. In 2016 there were 390 million international arrivals and CBP examined the devices of 19,033 of them – a little more than double […]

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General Kelly Admits US Citizens Risk Having Their Cell Phones Seized At The Border

Back in April, General Kelly, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in Congressional hearings said that non-citizens might be detained or denied entry to the US if they didn’t let Homeland Security rummage through their electronic devices and maybe even make copies of them at the border.  He seemed to indicate that this wasn’t […]

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