Collaborate Disseminate
Unless someone blinks, this coming Sunday September 20, Chinese company ByteDance’s TikTok dies. The President’s executive order, which prohibits any “transactions” with ByteDance thereafter has now been clarified to note that “transactions” include both the transfer of data to and from TikTok, as well as the hosting or downloading of the applications that make TikTok work. As…
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Unless someone blinks, this coming Sunday September 20, Chinese company ByteDance’s TikTok dies. The President’s executive order, which prohibits any “transactions” with ByteDance thereafter has now been clarified to note that “transactions” include both the transfer of data to and from TikTok, as well as the hosting or downloading of the applications that make TikTok work. As…
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One question that vexes security engineers, incident responders and lawyers is whether a ransomware attack constitutes a reportable data breach under any of the various data breach disclosure laws, regulations or other requirements. As with anything e… Continue reading Is a Ransomware Attack a Reportable Data Breach?
The InfoSec world has been atwitter over the indictment of former Uber CSO (and current Cloudflare CISO) Joe Sullivan on criminal charges related to the failure to report to the FTC a massive data breach involving millions of personal records stolen from the ride sharing service. The allegations in the complaint are that the Federal Trade Commission…
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The InfoSec world has been atwitter over the indictment of former Uber CSO (and current Cloudflare CISO) Joe Sullivan on criminal charges related to the failure to report to the FTC a massive data breach involving millions of personal records stolen from the ride sharing service. The allegations in the complaint are that the Federal Trade Commission…
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The accuracy or integrity of data is only as good as its source In two separate incidents, one in Colorado and one in Washington, D.C., police at gunpoint stopped people who were not committing any crimes, ordered young families out of their cars at g… Continue reading Garbage In, Gospel Out: The Security Problem of Data Accuracy
The accuracy or integrity of data is only as good as its source In two separate incidents, one in Colorado and one in Washington, D.C., police at gunpoint stopped people who were not committing any crimes, ordered young families out of their cars at g… Continue reading Garbage In, Gospel Out: The Security Problem of Data Accuracy
Last week, President Donald Trump threatened to ban the popular social media platform TikTok, whose corporate owner is a Chinese company with alleged ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Trump’s stated grounds for seeking to ban the popular appl… Continue reading TikTok and National Security: The Need for a Comprehensive U.S. Privacy Law
Data privacy is the core tenet of the EU’s GDPR, which is wide-reaching and comprehensive On June 16, the European Court of Justice issued its long-awaited decision in Facebook Ireland Ltd. v. Maximillian Schrems, more commonly referred to as Sc… Continue reading Understanding the EU Data Privacy Decision
Everyone knows that Bitcoin is an anonymous currency. Except when it isn’t. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies attempt to achieve the incompatible goals of providing strong accountability for transactions through blockchain and strong anonymity. If th… Continue reading Schrodinger’s Cryptocurrency – Both Private and Not