Security

Schools’ use of cloud services puts student privacy at risk

Vendors should promise not to use targeted advertising and behavioral profiling, SafeGov said

Security org raises Internet threat level after seeing expanded IE attacks

Gang responsible for Bit9 hack in February responsible for latest attacks exploiting IE 'zero-day,' says FireEye

Encryption is still the best defense, despite NSA code-cracking

How to protect corporate data from angry ex-employees

Surveys show companies lose millions due to hacks by disgruntled former workers

NSA spying fiasco sending customers overseas  

Switzerland-based Cloud Sigma says businesses are looking to international providers who are out of jurisdiction of US federal agencies

LinkedIn denies harvesting user email accounts without permission

A lawsuit charges that the company breaks into email accounts of its members to gather contacts' addresses

Security: Book Review — The Practice of Network Security Monitoring, Richard Bejtlich, no starch press, July 2013

If you work in cyber security or incident response, you MUST read this book. It is the best book ever for preparing yourself and your staff for handling inevitable network intrusions.

Rather than walling off from NSA, Brazil should welcome whistleblowers

Sen. Franken seeks data on privacy controls in iPhone 5s fingerprint tech

Lawmaker seeks answers to a list of 'substantial privacy questions' sent to Apple CEO Cook

Prime time for Cisco vulnerabilities

Data center and hosted unified communications managers have holes