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Security News for the Week Ending May 13, 2022

May 13, 2022 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Chinese Sponsored OPERATION CUCKOOBEES Active for Many Years Researchers with cybersecurity firm Cybereason briefed the FBI and Justice Department as early as 2019 about Operation CuckooBees, an alleged espionage effort by Chinese state-sponsored hackers (named Winnti or APT41) to steal proprietary information from dozens of global defense, energy, biotech, aerospace and pharmaceutical companies. The companies […]

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Alerts, Legal, Privacy, Safety

It’s To Protect The Children

January 17, 2022 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Law enforcement has been trying since at least the 1990’s when they jailed and tried to convict Phil Zimmerman for creating an open source encryption program called PGP, to put the encryption genie back in the bottle. The problem is that encryption is math and math doesn’t care about politics. If some governments were to […]

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Germany (And Others) Talks About Banning End to End Encryption

May 27, 2019 CyberCecurity Leave a comment

Der Spiegel is reporting that the German Ministry for Internal Affairs is planning to require all Internet message service providers be able to provide unencrypted copies of messages if requested. This is, of course, not new. The Crypto Wars started in the 1990s with Phil Zimmerman and PGP and continues to this day. A few […]

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