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2017-02-01 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 4)Insights in information security and privacy news

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • It’s 2017 and 200,000 services still have unpatched Heartbleeds
  • Hackers exploit SCADA holes to take full control of critical infrastructure
  • China just made VPNs illegal
  • This App Offers Personal Recommendations While Keeping Your Data Private
  • ‘Security questions’ not that tough to crack
  • Lloyds cyber-attack details emerge
  • Majority of organisations are in the dark regarding daily network attacks
  • Ransomware Hijacks Hotel Smart Keys to Lock Guests Out of their Rooms
  • Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens wil optreden tegen datalekken gemeenten

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: InfoSec, Privacy, Software Security

2017-01-25 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 3)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • Thousands warned they may be victims of rogue webmaster
  • The US Postal Service Wants to Hunt Down Dark Web Criminals
  • Cobert: OPM ‘feels like a different place’ post-cyber breach
  • Connected Devices Give Spies a Powerful New Way to Surveil
  • New U.K. Surveillance Law Will Have Worldwide Implications
  • Landmark Australian ruling on what counts as ‘personal information’ – Strategy
  • Reminder: Your Passwords Are Still Terrible | News & Opinion
  • Consumers are passing off security responsibility to others: Gemalto
  • Squirrel ‘threat’ to critical infrastructure

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: InfoSec, Online surveillance, Privacy

2017-01-18 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 2)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • N.S.A. Gets More Latitude to Share Intercepted Communications
  • Attributing the DNC Hacks to Russia
  • Microsoft sued by staff traumatized by child sex abuse vids stashed on OneDrive accounts
  • GoDaddy revokes 9,000 SSL certificates wrongly validated by code bug
  • MongoDB Ransomware Compromises Double in a Day
  • £150,000 fine for insurance company that failed to keep customers’ information safe
  • On-body transmission and its biometric implications
  • Oh ALIS, don’t keep us waiting: F-35 jet’s software ‘delayed’
  • Airplane boarding display leaks passenger data

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: InfoSec, Online surveillance, Privacy

2017-01-11 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2017 (week 1)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • Cloudflare hit by leap second “software panic” snafu on New Year’s Day
  • Why Skimming Will Grow in 2017
  • A Few States Now Actually Help You Figure Out If You’ve Been Hacked
  • Children in England sign over digital rights ‘regularly and unknowingly’
  • Analysis: 2016 Health Data Breaches, and What’s Ahead
  • THE REAL NAME FALLACY
  • Designer launches fabric to bamboozle facial recognition
  • LG threatens to put Wi-Fi in every appliance it introduces in 2017
  • The weigh forward: MasterCard could estimate passengers’ weight for airlines based on what they buy

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, InfoSec, Privacy

2017-01-06 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy and the 12 recaps of 2016 (day 12)

Today I am ending the 12 recaps series by looking ahead to the new year.
What will 2017 bring us in the fields of information security and privacy, will it be more of the same or will different topics dominate the news this year?
Another possibility is that the themes will roughly be similar but the impact and scope will change.
I will discuss a range of topics and my nine predictions for 2017 in the video below.



Topics

In the above video, the following topics are discussed:.

  • Security and data breaches
  • Ransomware
  • The interNOT of things (IOT)
  • EU privacy laws
  • cryptography and cryptowars
  • Online surveillance

Other articles in this series

  • Day 1: Introduction
  • Day 2: security Breaches
  • Day 3: The InterNOT of Things
  • Day 4: Cryptography
  • Day 5: Interesting facts
  • Day 6: Security and privacy of social media
  • Day 7: Software security
  • Day 8: Information Security titbits
  • Day 6: Technology impact on privacy
  • Day 10: Legal privacy
  • Day 11: Online surveillance

Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Cryptography, InfoSec, Privacy

2017-01-05 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy and the 12 recaps of 2016 (day 11)

In a day and age that everything has a digital side to it, intelligence agencies want a piece of that pie too. However, more and more of us are, because it is done for us, using encrypted devices and communication making the job of law enforcement and intelligence agencies more difficult or so they claim.
And then there is world wide terrorism too which politicians are gladly using to reduce privacy and data protection in exchange for security and safety, at least that is what they constantly are promising us yet at the same time scaring society in to agreement.
With all that going on it is no surprise that online surveillance is on the rise, either because we finally found out about it as in the Snowden case or by the virtue of new laws like the UK’s investigatory powers act or snoopers charter.
Today in the final instalment of this series that looks back at 2016, I will be focusing on surveillance from the NSA getting hacked itself, to France and the UK’s attempt at surveillance laws and databases, intelligence agencies who kept too much data and EU politicians wanting a piece of the surveillance pie as well.

In chronological order:

  • EU votes on sharing air passenger data in wake of Paris, Brussels attacks
  • China’s proposed cybersecurity laws spark concerns among businesses
  • The NSA Hack — What, When, Where, How, Who & Why?
  • EU ministers look to tighten up privacy – JUST KIDDING – surveillance laws
  • Una Mullally: Edward Snowden’s warnings fall on deaf ears
  • UK security agencies unlawfully collected data for 17 years, court rules
  • France Creates Big Brother Data File Raising Privacy Concerns
  • Sharing’s caring? Not when you spread data across gov willy-nilly
  • Investigatory Powers law setback: Blanket data slurp is illegal—top EU court

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Aviation, Cryptography, InfoSec, Online surveillance, Privacy

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