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Data Privacy Leaks – The Drip, Drip, Drip of Exposure
Beyond the "headline breach," modern enterprises face a persistent threat: steady-state data leakage. Learn why traditional privacy definitions fail and how "authorized" data flows in workplace apps create continuous legal and operational ...
How the Supreme Court’s “Third Party” Subpoena Doctrine Empowers Governments to Seize Sensitive Information Without Your Knowledge
This article examines the widespread collection of personal data and the legal challenges individuals face from third-party subpoenas. It discusses key court rulings on government access to personal information and highlights the ...
How to set PCAP as default save file format in Wireshark
Did you know that there is a setting in Wireshark for changing the default save file format from pcapng to pcap? In Wireshark, click Edit, Preferences. Then select Advanced and look for ...
Mental Health Apps are Likely Collecting and Sharing Your Data
May is mental health awareness month! In pursuing help or advice for mental health struggles (beyond just this month, of course), users may download and use mental health apps. Mental health apps ...
Spying through Push Notifications
When you get a push notification on your Apple or Google phone, those notifications go through Apple and Google servers. Which means that those companies can spy on them—either for their own ...
Cyclops Unveils Cybersecurity Search Engine Based on Generative AI
Cyclops today emerged from stealth to launch a search engine platform for cybersecurity teams that makes use of metadata and generative artificial intelligence (AI) to make it simpler to successfully defend organizations ...
Metadata and Your Privacy
The importance of metadata to user privacy is simply under emphasized. Metadata can tell the whole story without ever reading the message contents; with files, Metadata can reveal additional and potentially sensitive ...
Interview with Signal’s New President
Long and interesting interview with Signal’s new president, Meredith Whittaker: WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. That was absolutely a visionary choice that Brian and his ...
Bunnie Huang’s Plausibly Deniable Database
Bunnie Huang has created a Plausibly Deniable Database. Most security schemes facilitate the coercive processes of an attacker because they disclose metadata about the secret data, such as the name and size ...
Metadata Left in Security Agency PDFs
Really interesting research: “Exploitation and Sanitization of Hidden Data in PDF Files” Abstract: Organizations publish and share more and more electronic documents like PDF files. Unfortunately, most organizations are unaware that these ...
