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Education nonprofit Edraak ignored a student data leak for two monthsApril 8, 2021 at 11:20 AM Edraak, an online education nonprofit, exposed the private information of thousands of students after uploading student data to an unprotected cloud storage server, apparently by mistake.
The nonprofit, founded by Jordan’s Queen Rania and headquartered in the kingdom’s capital, was set up in 2013 to promote education across the Arab region. The organization works with several partners, including the British Council and edX, a consortium set up by Harvard, Stanford and MIT.
In February, researche...Tags: Security, UK, Email, Education, Server, California, Stanford, Linkedin, Tech, Spokesperson, Mit, Harvard, United Kingdom, Computing, Jamaica, Jordan 44 people like this. Like Stop Zambia’s digital squeezeMarch 9, 2021 at 6:31 AM  Tags: Politics, Elections, Internet, Africa, Zambia, Digital Rights, Cyberspace, Openaccess, Edgar Lungu, Patriotic Front, Hakainde Hichilema, Cyber Bill 148 people like this. Like Do This Instead of Sending an Angry Text or EmailFebruary 2, 2021 at 2:00 PM  Tags: Email, Computing, Lifehacks, Text Messaging, Cyberspace, Human Interest, Computer Networking, Message Passing 100 people like this. Like You Should Always Pre-Schedule Your EmailsJanuary 28, 2021 at 3:30 PM  Tags: Email, Marketing, Lifehacks, Spamming, Cyberspace, Online Advertising, Digital Marketing, Computer Networking 109 people like this. Like Delete 'Sent From My Mobile Device' From Your Work EmailJanuary 27, 2021 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Email, Labor, United States, Computing, Lifehacks, Cyberspace, Computer Networking, Business_finance, Law_crime, Push Email 145 people like this. Like Why You Should Never 'Unsubscribe' From Illicit Spam Emails and TextsJanuary 26, 2021 at 1:30 PM  Tags: Email, Marketing, Lifehacks, Email Spam, Spamming, Cyberspace, Computer Networking, Anti Spam Techniques 149 people like this. Like Russia’s SolarWinds AttackDecember 28, 2020 at 7:23 PM Recent news articles have all been talking about the massive Russian cyberattack against the United States, but that’s wrong on two accounts. It wasn’t a cyberattack in international relations terms, it was espionage. And the victim wasn’t just the US, it was the entire world. But it was massive, and it is dangerous.
Espionage is internationally allowed in peacetime. The problem is that both espionage and cyberattacks require the same computer and network intrusions, and the difference is only a...Tags: Google, Microsoft, Obama, North Korea, Nsa, White House, China, Russia, Israel, Uncategorized, US, Iran, Cybercrime, United States, Cyberattack, Hacking 15 people like this. Like Applicants say a DC Bar website bug exposed their personal data and background checksSeptember 30, 2020 at 11:56 AM Lawyers applying for a license to practice law in Washington, D.C., say a security lapse by the bar association exposed their application files, including their government-issued IDs and background checks.
Applicants said the District of Columbia Bar, which oversees the admissions and licensing for lawyers practicing in the U.S. capital, was storing the applications in an unprotected directory on its website.
The DC Bar did not respond to multiple emailed requests and a voicemail requesting comm...Tags: Security, Email, Internet, Washington, Government, Tech, Washington Dc, Computing, Dc, District Of Columbia, Web Browser, World Wide Web, Cyberspace, District of Columbia Bar 22 people like this. Like Report: Trump Gave CIA Free Rein in CyberspaceJuly 15, 2020 at 5:23 PM  Tags: Science, White House, America, Iran, Cybersecurity, Cia, Central Intelligence Agency, Cyberspace, Trump, Yahoo News, Central Intelligence Hackers, Trump Gave CIA 83 people like this. Like House Biofuels Caucus leaderships holds virtual town hall meetingJune 18, 2020 at 5:29 PM In Cyberspace, Brownfield Ag News reports that the House Biofuels Caucus leadership held a virtual town hall meeting on Wednesday with more than 20 minutes of the session available for listening. Issues such as the Renewable Fuel Reimbursement Program that is part of the HEROES package aimed at helping the economy recover post-COVID 19 as well as the “gap” requests for small refinery exemptions were amongst the topics discussed. Ensuring that agriculture gets its fair share of bailout funding is...Tags: Senate, Producer News, Cyberspace, House Ag Committee, House Biofuels Caucus, Renewable Fuel Reimbursement Program, Cyberspace Brownfield Ag News 42 people like this. Like Anti-phishing startup Inky raises $20M to ramp up enterprise adoptionJune 4, 2020 at 6:00 AM Anti-phishing startup Inky has raised $20 million in its Series B round of funding, led by Insight Partners .
The funding will help the company push for greater enterprise adoption and expand to international markets including Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Inky started out a decade ago with a bold mission to reinvent email with its desktop app focused on helping users better organize and filter their inboxes. The company pivoted away from its email improvement efforts in 2018 to focus on ...Tags: Security, Verizon, Asia, Europe, Crime, Email, Tech, Cybercrime, Information Technology, Machine Learning, Cross-site Scripting, Social Engineering, Phishing, Latin America, Identity Theft, Series B 11 people like this. Like Youth mythbusters needed to curb the viral threat to public health communicationsMay 23, 2020 at 3:00 PM  Tags: Opinion, Youth, Substance Abuse, Websites, Communications, Cyberspace, Misinformation, Openaccess, Fake News, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Infodemic, Openacess 69 people like this. Like Staff angered as Charter prohibits working from home despite spread of coronavirusMarch 16, 2020 at 7:14 PM  Tags: Health, Security, Verizon, New York, Email, Cdc, White House, Tech, United States, Comcast, Telecommunications, Wheeler, Reddit, Who, Denver, Signal 56 people like this. Like Develop a serious cybersecurity strategic plan that incorporates CCMFebruary 10, 2020 at 2:52 PM Robert R. Ackerman Jr.
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Robert R. Ackerman Jr. is the founder and managing director of AllegisCyber, a venture capital firm specializing in cybersecurity, and the co-founder and executive at DataTribe, a cybersecurity startup foundry which focuses on launching startups based on cyber domain expertise from the intelligence community and national laboratories.
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...Tags: Security, Verizon, Column, Yahoo, Developer, Tech, Cryptography, Cybercrime, Gartner, Cyberwarfare, Computer Security, Cyberspace, CCM, Forward, vArmour, Robert R Ackerman Jr Contributor Share 22 people like this. Like Internet Governance Outlook 2020: The Next Generation of Players and Problems Is ComingJanuary 14, 2020 at 12:31 PM By Wolfgang Kleinwächter
The beginning of a new decade is always an invitation to have a broader look into the future. What, in the next ten years, will happen in the Internet Governance Ecosystem? Will the 2020s see the usual swinging pendulum between more liberal and more restrictive Internet policies in an interconnected world? Or will we move towards a watershed? Will cyberspace, as we know it from the last 50 years as a place for innovation and mutually beneficial digital cooperation, cha...Tags: Facebook, Ecommerce, New York, Microsoft, France, Saudi Arabia, Angela Merkel, Russia, Berlin, Africa, Digital, US, Eu, G20, Icann, Paypal 34 people like this. Like Only a few 2020 US presidential candidates are using a basic email security featureNovember 27, 2019 at 11:59 AM  Tags: Google, Security, Crime, Government, Elizabeth Warren, US, Tech, Cybercrime, Green, Hillary Clinton, United States, Wikileaks, Social Engineering, Donald Trump, Phishing, Presidential Election 103 people like this. Like Startups face the same phishing risks as big corporationsNovember 22, 2019 at 12:01 PM This week, we reported on TechCrunch how thousands of remote employees with health and workplace benefits through human resources giant TriNet received emails that looked like a near-perfect phishing attempt.
One recipient was so skeptical, they shared the email with TechCrunch so we could verify its authenticity. The message checked every suspicious box. In fact, when, we asked two independent security researchers to offer their assessments, each one thought it was a phishing email devised to s...Tags: Security, Startups, TC, Cybercrime, Phishing, Spamming, Cyberspace, DMARC, AGARI, TriNet 17 people like this. Like A new study says nearly 96% of deepfake videos are pornOctober 7, 2019 at 10:00 AM  Tags: Startups, Apps, Cyberspace, Boston University, Netherland, Danielle Citron, Deeptrace 86 people like this. Like DDoS attack disrupted US energy company operations, government confirmsMay 2, 2019 at 11:42 AM A distributed denial-of-service attack launched against an energy company providing power in several western U.S. states was enough to report “interruptions of electrical system operations” to the government’s energy authority.
The “cyber event” lasted almost ten hours on March 5, according to an electric emergency and disturbance report filed with the Department of Energy by the affected company.
E&E News first reported the “cyber event” last week. It was later reported as a DDoS attack.
In an ...Tags: Security, Energy, Utah, California, Government, Russia, US, Los Angeles, Tech, Spokesperson, Ukraine, Cybercrime, Cyberattack, Wyoming, Venezuela, DOE 12 people like this. Like ‘Denial of service’ attack disrupted US energy company operations, government confirmsMay 2, 2019 at 11:42 AM A denial-of-service attack launched against an energy company providing power in several western U.S. states was enough to report “interruptions of electrical system operations” to the government’s energy authority.
The “cyber event” lasted almost 10 hours on March 5, according to an electric emergency and disturbance report filed with the Department of Energy by the affected company.
E&E News first reported the “cyber event” last week. It was later reported as a denial-of-service attack, a comm...Tags: Security, Energy, Utah, California, Government, Russia, US, Los Angeles, Tech, Spokesperson, Ukraine, Cybercrime, Cyberattack, Wyoming, Venezuela, DOE 24 people like this. Like Nearly all 2020 presidential candidates aren’t using a basic email security featureApril 30, 2019 at 8:00 AM Three years after Russian hackers targeted and breached the email accounts of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, nearly all of the upcoming 2020 presidential candidates are still lagging in email security.
New data out by Agari confirms just one presidential hopeful — Democratic candidate Elizabeth Warren — uses domain-based message authentication, reporting, and conformance policy — or DMARC . This email security feature sits on top of two existing security protocols, Sender Polic...Tags: Security, Startups, Email, Congress, Elizabeth Warren, Cybercrime, Policy, Information Technology, Hillary Clinton, United States, Computing, Homeland Security, Donald Trump, Phishing, U.s. Government, Spamming 34 people like this. Like We found a massive spam operation — and sunk its serverApril 2, 2019 at 10:55 AM  Tags: Security, Email, Tech, Pgp, Bbc, Cnn, Computing, Cell Phones, Belgium, Signal, World Wide Web, Spamming, Cyberspace, Online Advertising, Elasticsearch, Troy Hunt 125 people like this. Like The U.S. Pledges A Harder Line In Cyberspace — And Drops Some HintsMarch 26, 2019 at 7:19 AM  Tags: News, Army, National Security Agency, Cyberspace, Cyber Command, Paul Nakasone 105 people like this. Like India: Revisiting The Current Scenario Of The Safeguards For Cybercrime - S.S. Rana & Co. AdvocatesFebruary 28, 2019 at 7:28 AM Digital space or Cyberspace is the driving force for the world today. From ordering a cab to ordering food to booking tickets for travel to shopping, everything can happen with just tapping a finger.Tags: News, India, Cyberspace, Rana 2 people like this. Like WIRTW #540 (the “wheels off” edition)February 1, 2019 at 11:10 AM The one question people ask me more than any other about this blog? "How do you write every day?"
My answer, "Because I love it."
The practice of law, for all of its challenges and rewards, can be mundane. This blog lets me be creative. I love the creativity of sharing information in a manner that makes it accessible and entertaining. If I didn't love this creative process, this blog would have died long ago, instead of just having passed 3,000(!) posts since it's inception nearly 12 years ago.
...Tags: Google, Law, Obama, Washington Post, Ohio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Ada, Harvard Business Review, Cyberspace, Rhett Miller, Robin Shea, Circuit Court, Rosanne, Eric Meyer, OSHA, FMLA 21 people like this. Like Some of the biggest web hosting sites were vulnerable to simple account takeover hacksJanuary 14, 2019 at 9:58 AM A security researcher has found, reported, and now disclosed a dozen bugs that made it easy to steal sensitive information or take over any customer’s account from some of the largest web hosting companies on the internet.
In some cases, clicking on a simple link would have been enough for Paulos Yibela, a well-known and respected bug hunter, to take over the accounts of anyone using five large hosting providers — Bluehost, Dreamhost, Hostgator, OVH, and iPage.
“All five had at least one serious...Tags: Security, Web Hosting, Tech, Javascript, Hack, Cybercrime, Hacking, Cross-site Scripting, Phishing, Cyberwarfare, World Wide Web, Cyberspace, Hostgator, Brett Dunst, Bluehost, OVH 40 people like this. Like The Science Fiction Writers of America inducts William Gibson as its next Grand MasterJanuary 8, 2019 at 2:47 PM What an excellent choice! Dr William Gibson, Grand Master of Science Fiction has such a nice ring to it. Go Bill! You can watch him get his award at the next Nebula Awards weekend, May 16-19, at the Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills in southern California. I have been to a Nebula weekend in at least a decade, but I'm putting this one in my calendar. (Image: Frederic Poirot, CC-BY-SA)Tags: Post, Happy Mutants, Science Fiction, News, Writing, California, America, Events, Cyberpunk, Canada, William Gibson, Sfwa, Cyberspace, Bill You, Don't Let The Little Fuckers Generation Gap You, Warner Center Marriott Woodland Hills 34 people like this. Like FBI kicks some of the worst ‘DDoS for hire’ sites off the internetDecember 20, 2018 at 2:38 PM The FBI has seized the domains of 15 several high-profile distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) websites, after a co-ordinated effort by law enforcement and several tech companies.
Several seizure warrants granted by a California federal judge went into effect Thursday, removing several of these “booter” or “stresser” sites off the internet “as part of coordinated law enforcement action taken against illegal DDoS-for-hire services.” The orders were granted under federal seizure laws, and the doma...Tags: Google, Security, California, Tech, Fbi, Cybercrime, Law Enforcement, Alaska, Justice Department, Cyberspace, Juan Martinez, U K s National Crime Agency, Bryan Schroder, Operation Payback, Matthew Gatrel, David Bukoski 45 people like this. Like Electric-car owners in China are worried their vehicles are sending their locations to the governmentNovember 30, 2018 at 2:25 AM  Tags: Europe, Elon Musk, China, US, Trends, Tesla, Bloomberg, Ap, Beijing, Xi Jinping, Alibaba, Homeland Security, Chinese communist party, Associated Press, George W Bush, China Daily 117 people like this. Like Here’s why it is unsurprising that China, the US, and Russia didn’t sign the global cyber security pactNovember 13, 2018 at 2:44 PM  Tags: Security, Startups, Microsoft, China, Russia, US, World, Paris, Cyberspace, Emmanuel Macron, Brad Smith, Paris Call for Trust, The Paris Call for Trust and Security 115 people like this. Like |
