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WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation
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There are things you can do—easy, free things!—to ward off the many entities (some nefarious, some just nosy) that want to steal your passwords, to know what websites you're looking at, or to gauge whether you're associating with someone who's on their list.
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Read this article, then force your kids to read it too, then explain it to them. I know I will.
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You'll find Linux everywhere, including in the most accurate rifles in the world.
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Very scary. I wrote about this a year ago http://sco.lt/5xXDI9 and recent events in Paris - shooters filmed everything using their goPro - make me believe that my prediction that shootings may soon be live streamed over Internet could become a reality soon.
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If the onset of high-profile hackings taught us anything in 2014, it's absolutely nothing. Here are the worst passwords of the year.
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Great options for managing passwords are passwordBox (montreal company just acquired by Intel) or LastPass.
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US and British intelligence agencies undertake every effort imaginable to crack all types of encrypted Internet communication. The cloud, it seems, is full of holes. The good news: New Snowden documents show that some forms of encryption still cause problems for the NSA. Via Constantin Ionel Milos / Milos Constantin
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The revelation that a Russian criminal gang stole more than 1.2 billion passwords have us asking if the hack was legitimate or if it even matters.
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JPMorgan data breach raises security concerns at banks, retailers despite 250M$/yr and 1000 employee
LOS ANGELES, Calif. - New details on a cyberattack against JPMorgan Chase & Co.'s computer servers this summer add to increasing doubts over the security of consumer data kept by lenders, retailers and others.
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We must get used to it: the more digital our lives are, the more cyberattacks will be dangerous for our privacy, security and have impact on businesses.
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Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see -- and write about -- the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United States' extensive surveillance of private citizens. In this searing talk, Greenwald makes the case for why you need to care about privacy, even if you’re “not doing anything you need to hide."
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Amazing talk on the reasons why privacy is so important in the digital age. Listen until the end as I find the Q&A during the last 3 minutes may help you to see Snowden as a whistle blower rather than a traitor. I was curious and dug the 2005 CNET article about the personal information that CNET has gathered on Eric Schmidt that Greenwald references in his talk.
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The message arrives on my “clean machine,” a MacBook Air loaded only with a sophisticated encryption package. “Change in plans,” my contact says. “Be in the lobby of the Hotel ______ by 1 pm. Bring a book and wait for ES to find you.”
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A very good story that reveals some new information about what Snowden knows and has done. Very informative and well written.
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For the past four years, a secret cyber-attack campaign, possibly state-sponsored, has been directed at several Latin American intelligence services, military, embassies and other government institutions. The Moscow-based cyber-security firm Kaspersky Lab, which claims to have unearthed the campaign, has given it a name: El Machete. According to Kaspersky, the attacks started in 2010. Its...
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Interesting that cyber attacks are not a monopoly of USA, China and Russia, although they share similar features with the USA PRISM program and Israeli Flame and Stuxnet virus. The Best Explanation Yet Of How The NSA's PRISM Surveillance Program Works http://sco.lt/8rWyDx A world where everything is hackable via @Strata @acroll http://sco.lt/8pX85p
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Steve Kroft investigates the multibillion-dollar industry that collects, analyzes and sells the personal information of millions of Americans with virtually no oversight
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A very well researched overview of the data privacy issues that we face online. The report exposes in very simple terms how your personal information is being collected as you browse the Internet. More on this topic here http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses/?tag=Privacy And also a specific post I wrote a while back on the tool featured during the interview: What is behavioural tracking? @gary_kovacs explains in 9min video: Tracking our online trackers via @TED #mustsee http://sco.lt/6nVELB
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As promised, the release of Glenn Greenwald's new book, No Place to Hide, has brought plenty more Snowden leaks, and one document is particularly
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Spying, just like in the movies! Also see United States of Secrets- #mustWatch via @FRONTLINE http://sco.lt/6kuPfV
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How did the government come to spy on millions of Americans?
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I watched episode #1, can't wait to see episode #2. Must watch, very good summary of all things in digital spying since 9/11.
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New models built with security and privacy in mind reflect the Zeitgeist of the Snowden era.
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Read if you want to know more about the new blackphone and the encryption behind it.
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Have you ever wanted to disappear online? Simply vanish from the electronic realm? Read on to discover how to remove your private info from the Internet.
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Very useful, if not complete, list of things to do to erase your life on the Internet. The post also has useful links to services that can partially automate the process.
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In 2010 I asked Professor Eben Moglen to speak to the Internet Society of New York about software freedom, privacy and security in the context of cloud computing and social media. In his Freedom in the Cloud talk, he proposed the FreedomBox as a solution: a small inexpensive computer which would provide secure encrypted communications in a decentralized way to defeat data mining and surveillance by governments and large corporations. Via Peter Azzopardi
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Security and privacy concerns are top of mind for corporations and individuals looking to move their data to the cloud. This very technical story provides some insights into what may be offered in the future: fully encrypted data, as soon as it leaves the browser, with minimal overhead. Let's hope we can see this in commercial offerings soon.
Peter Azzopardi's curator insight,
April 18, 2014 6:54 PM
Homomorphic encryption allows data to be processed in an encrypted form so that only the end user can access it in a readable form. So far it has been too demanding for normal computers to handle.
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Download the 2014 PCI Report from Verizon for the latest on data
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PCI-DSS is an essential international standard that verifies that merchants and service providers are appropriately protecting credit card data. Easy to implement, it remains mind blowing how companies can fail to fully comply. Essential reading for anyone in the ecommerce field.
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Thanks to a leak of Syrian web censorship data, internet researchers have been able to analyse, for the first time, exactly what steps an authoritarian regime takes to restrict traffic. Via Bob Boynton
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I have not looked at the raw data or the report itself but I find interesting that - 98% of traffic goes through untouched - the analysis does not raise the question of how much traffic was "inspected" or looked at
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The morning of Friday, Feb. 7, the prominent Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox announced that, due to technical problems, it would be putting bitcoin withdrawals on hold. Customers would still be able to cash their bitcoins in for other currencies, or trade on the market. But getting bitcoins out of Mt. Gox would be impossible. The...
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Contains a high level description of the way bitcoins work. But be careful, slightly technical read ahead! ;-)
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They plan to rebuild and change the way money moves from buyer to seller.
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Bitcoins remain a risky proposition, we all know that. What this event provides is how much attention bitcoin have received - and speculation - in a world where there are no rules. No government regulation, just "code of conduct" from its users.
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Security firm Kaspersky Labs recently released a research paper that uncovers the existence of a piece of highly complex malware that's been in
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Malware is not only the territory of USA, Israel, Britain, China or Russia.
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According to the blog TalkTechToMe, 4,794 vulnerabilities in operating systems, programs and hardware were discovered last year. The National Vulnerability Database forms the basis of the study. Accordingly, Oracle, Cisco and Microsoft were the most often affected and 94 percent of discovered security vulnerabilities related to software. The operating systems most commonly affected were Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Vista. The programs with the most vulnerabilities were Internet Explorer, Java and Chrome.
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Follow the link to the TalkTechToMe blog to get detailed data and analysis. You'll also get this piece of advice, always true and always useful... To keep systems secure, it is critical to maintain them fully-patched. Extra attention is required for (patch them first):
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Just sat through a good webinar presentation on ransomware cryptoblocker. It opened my eyes to this new trend of hacking into computers, encrypting files and then asking money to recuperate them. You have 36 hours to pay 300$ for the priviledge to recuperate your files. Ouch! Waiting longer can cost you even more - up to 8000$ is reported. It appears to be a growing form of malware as reported in this report by Dark Reading (be careful, dark reading is part of Sophos which has written the report and, of course, has software to help block ransomware). This attack is targetted at individuals as well as corporations. This link points to a security threat report which summarizes where we are at in terms of security concerns, and what's on the horizon. As we move towards digital everything, security and protection against threats has to become even more of a priority for corporations. It should be baked into projects and solution from the get go. Replay of the webinar Smarter, Shadier, Stealthier Malware: The Latest on Today’s Threats
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Cyber threats are now a critical issue affecting the national security of nation countries worldwide.
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A great very technical review of the solution, services and players in the cloud security market.
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For the world’s economy to get full value from technological innovation, it must have a robust, coordinated approach to cybersecurity. A new report from the World Economic Forum and McKinsey & Company looks at how that could happen.
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The report provides a comprehensive 14 elements framework to guide the collaboration required to make corporations more cyber-resilient. In our world of 100M credit card stolen at Target and large-scale NSA spying activities, McKinsey suggests that this now become a priority on the CEO agenda. I argue when looking at the framework that many of the Enterprise Architecture tools and practices can be leveraged successfully to implement the framework. Moreover, as digital transformations become common place, the security aspects must be integrated from the get-go.
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The article describes MIT research that proves anonymous data provides sufficient information to identify you when merged with location, date and other purchase data. There is no privacy when Big Data is mined.
Compare this with previous posts on the subject http://www.scoop.it/t/digital-transformation-of-businesses?tag=Privacy
or this specific post about a German politician life exposed via his cell phone location data http://sco.lt/7shPsH