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JFK and the Houthis: Haste Makes Waste of Security
Rather than simply exposing buried truths of the assassination, the final tranche of JFK files also exposed the personal information, including social security numbers, of a parade of people associated with the ...
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DOGE Access to Personal Information and The Difficulty of Showing Harm in Privacy Litigation
If a company has effective insurance, prevention becomes even less cost-effective. By failing to “value” privacy alone, the system skews in favor of not protecting privacy ...
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CDW Survey Surfaces Cybersecurity Tool Sprawl Challenges
Stress? What stress? 43% of IT professionals report that their organization had experienced a security breach that caused downtime and cost $1-10 million ...
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Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram Back Online After Nearly Six Hours of Worldwide Outage
Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp are back online after nearly six hours of a major outage. These services altogether have more than 6 billion users worldwide. Users who tried to access. The post ...
Are Cybersecurity Intelligence and Security Metrics Statistically Significant?
C. Warren Axelrod | | CSO/CISO Perspectives, cybercrime, cybersecurity metrics, Data breaches, Ponemon Institute, security breaches, Security Metrics, Spotlight, statistics, Verizon DBIR
It is customary to begin an article on cybersecurity with some statement about the exponential growth of threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, etc. I’m no different. It seems like a reasonable, generally accepted thing ...

Security Struggling to Stay Ahead of More Sophisticated Threats
Sue Poremba | | Data Security, Grand Theft Data II, McAfee report, Network Security, security breaches, security hygiene
Will organizations ever reach a point where they feel confident about their security and the ability to defend against threats and breaches? I hope the answer is yes, someday our security systems ...
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Keeping Workplace Privacy Accidents to a Minimum
Data privacy is taking center stage in countries worldwide. Organizations are strengthening privacy controls in the face of endless data breaches, tighter regulations, stiff penalties and customer pushback. We’re undergoing a major ...
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Among Cybersecurity Pros, Security Paranoia Runs Deep
Sue Poremba | | CISOs, Cybersecurity, Malware, security breaches, security professionals, Security threats
Cybersecurity pros are a paranoid bunch, at least according to a survey Lastline conducted at the RSA Conference in March. It makes sense when you think about it. After all, these are ...
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Forgo the FUD to Prevent the Security Breach
How fear, uncertainty and doubt feed the false belief that security breaches can’t be avoided Coming off the heels of the Facebook breach news, it might sound downright crazy to suggest that ...
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Is Vulnerability Management Now Out of Our Control?
I can think of three events that have happened over the last few years that were harbingers of what’s to come. The first—and most recent—was the FBI’s stern call to the public: ...
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