Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), all personal data breaches must be recorded by the organisation and there should be a clear and defined process for doing so. Additionally, there are circumstances in which…
NSA Advisory on Chinese Government Hacking
The NSA released an advisory listing the top twenty-five known vulnerabilities currently being exploited by Chinese nation-state attackers. This advisory provides Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) known to be recently leveraged, or scanned-for, by Chinese…
Former NSA Director Keith Alexander Joins Amazon’s Board…
This sounds like a bad idea.Read more: schneier.com
NSA on Securing VPNs
The NSA's Central Security Service -- that's the part that's supposed to work on defense -- has released two documents (a full and an abridged version) on securing virtual private networks. Some of it is…
Drovorub Malware
The NSA and FBI have jointly disclosed Drovorub, a Russian malware suite that targets Linux. Detailed advisory. Fact sheet. News articles. Reddit thread.Read more: schneier.com
Bart Gellman on Snowden
Bart Gellman's long-awaited (at least by me) book on Edward Snowden, Dark Mirror: Edward Snowden and the American Surveillance State, will finally be published in a couple of weeks. There is an adapted excerpt in…
Securing Internet Videoconferencing Apps: Zoom and Others
The NSA just published a survey of video conferencing apps. So did Mozilla. Zoom is on the good list, with some caveats. The company has done a lot of work addressing previous security concerns. It…
Newly Declassified Study Demonstrates Uselessness of NSA’s Phone…
The New York Times is reporting on the NSA's phone metadata program, which the NSA shut down last year: A National Security Agency system that analyzed logs of Americans' domestic phone calls and text messages…
A New Clue for the Kryptos Sculpture
Jim Sanborn, who designed the Kryptos sculpture in a CIA courtyard, has released another clue to the still-unsolved part 4. I think he's getting tired of waiting. Did we mention Mr. Sanborn is 74? Holding…