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Interesting commentary: I don't think this is really a case about ISP liability at all. It is a case about the use of a person's image, without their consent, that generates commercial value for someone else. That is the essence of the Italian law at issue in this case. It is also how the right of privacy was first established...
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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04:59
The "Microsoft Online Services Global Criminal Compliance Handbook (U.S. Domestic Version)" (also can be found here, here, and here) outlines exactly what Microsoft will do upon police request. Here's a good summary of what's in it: The Global Criminal Compliance Handbook is a quasi-comprehensive explanatory document meant for law enforcement officials seeking access to Microsoft's stored user information. It also...
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
Categories: Security News
March 8, 201012:24
Funny: MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Responding to recent public outcries over its handling of private data, search giant Google offered a wide-ranging and eerily well-informed apology to its millions of users Monday. "We would like to extend our deepest apologies to each and every one of you," announced CEO Eric Schmidt, speaking from the company's Googleplex headquarters. "Clearly there have been some...
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
Categories: Security News
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How not to destroy evidence: In a bold and bizarre attempt to destroy evidence seized during a federal raid, a New York City man grabbed a flash drive and swallowed the data storage device while in the custody of Secret Service agents, records show. The article wasn't explicit about this -- odd, as it's the main question any reader would...
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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Interesting paper: "A Practical Attack to De-Anonymize Social Network Users." Abstract. Social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Xing have been reporting exponential growth rates. These sites have millions of registered users, and they are interesting from a security and privacy point of view because they store large amounts of sensitive personal user data. In this paper, we introduce...
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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March 5, 201014:32
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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04:02
The Spanish police arrested three people in connection with the 13-million-computer Mariposa botnet....
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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March 4, 201010:55
On Tuesday, the White House published an unclassified summary of its Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI). Howard Schmidt made the announcement at the RSA Conference. These are the 12 initiatives in the plan: Initiative #1. Manage the Federal Enterprise Network as a single network enterprise with Trusted Internet. Initiative #2. Deploy an intrusion detection system of sensors across the Federal...
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
Categories: Security News
04:05
Look at this new AES-encrypted USB memory stick. You enter the key directly into the stick via the keypad, thereby bypassing any eavesdropping software on the computer. The problem is that in order to get full 256-bit entropy in the key, you need to enter 77 decimal digits using the keypad. I can't imagine anyone doing that; they'll enter an...
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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'Severe' OpenSSL vuln busts public key crypto
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Source: SecurityFocus News
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Monster botnet held 800,000 people's details
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Source: SecurityFocus News
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March 3, 201023:00
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Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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March 2, 201003:55
Interesting essay by a former CIA field officer on the al-Mabhouh assassination: The truth is that Mr. Mabhouh's assassination was conducted according to the book -- a military operation in which the environment is completely controlled by the assassins. At least 25 people are needed to carry off something like this. You need "eyes on" the target 24 hours a...
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
Categories: Security News
March 1, 201005:18
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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February 26, 201014:21
Source: Bruce Schneier's Blog
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