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Customs Buys Massive Surveillance Power

Customs and Border protection signed a contract with LexisNexis Risk Solutions last year and it is scary both in terms of how much data they have access to and how cheap the cost is. Anyone is free to execute a similar contract at the company’s discretion as there are very limited laws anywhere prohibiting this. […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending May 26, 2023

Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 1, 2021

Women, Minorities are Hacked More Than Others A new report, released this week, says that lower income and vulnerable populations are disproportionately affected by cyber crime. Shockingly (not), the report says that those with lower incomes, lower education and minority groups are more likely to fall victim to cyber crime. While the gap is not […]

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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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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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Can Border Agents Search Your Phone?

Bloomberg published a brief on the issue of border searches that was written for them by the international law firm of Morrison Foerster on the subject of border searches. Given that lawyers wrote the piece, their concern is about protecting attorney-client confidential information at the border, but the subject applies to everyone. According to Customs […]

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