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NIST revises security publication on random number generation

In response to public concerns about cryptographic security, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has formally revised its recommended methods for …

WikiLeaks publishes reports showing NSA spied on French presidents

WikiLeaks has published “Espionnage Élysée”, a set of intelligence reports and documents that show that the US NSA has, between 2006 and 2012, intercepted the …

Who fixes the most vulnerabilities?

Web and mobile applications produced or used by government organizations are more likely than those in other industries to fail standard security policies like the OWASP Top …

The state of cyber security in Thailand

Thailand – the land of smiles – invited me as a panelist to the CSA ASEAN 2015 summit. Bangkok, with its fantastic street food, smiling people and general …

Stronger data protection rules for Europe

More than 90% of Europeans are concerned about mobile apps collecting their data without their consent. Today, an important step was taken to finalize EU data protection rules …

OPM hack: Vast amounts of extremely sensitive data stolen

The extent of the breach suffered by the US Office of Personnel Management has apparently widened. Reports are coming in that the hackers have not only accessed Social …

49 suspected members of cybercriminal group arrested in Europe

Yesterday, a joint international operation led to the dismantling of a group of cybercriminals active in Italy, Spain, Poland, the United Kingdom, Belgium and Georgia, who are …

Personal info of 4 million US government workers compromised in OPM breach

Approximately 4 million US federal employees, both current and former, will start receiving a breach notification alerting them that their personal information has potentially …

Shadow IT is prevalent in government agencies

Despite clear benefits of cloud services – greater collaboration, agility, and cost savings – federal agencies are slow to migrate to the cloud due to security concerns. As a …

USA Freedom Act is just the beginning of the fight for privacy

The US Senate voted for the passing of the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday, and President Obama signed it into law later the same day. So, how will this impact the surveillance …

Section 215 of the Patriot Act expired last night

A small, perhaps temporary, but important victory has been won by privacy advocates today, as the US Senate has allowed three sections of the USA PATRIOT Act to expire.Among …

If we want strong encryption, we’ll have to fight for it

As digital rights lawyer and special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation Marcia Hofmann correctly noted in her keynote at Hack in the Box Amsterdam 2015 on Thursday, …

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