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Home › 2014
Year: 2014

Patents and America’s Innovation Engine

Posted on December 23, 2014 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Inventing to Nowhere

America is the world’s innovation engine. The First Industrial Revolution, 1760 to 1830, took place in England. But by the time of the Second Industrial Revolution in the mid-19th century America had already taken over as the premier source of…

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Tagged with: patent reform

The Secret Meanings of Passwords

Posted on November 30, 2014 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Password - Incorrect

As the New York Times relates, it was far too easy to reconstruct passwords after the attacks of September 11, 2001, killed 658 Cantor Fitzgerald employees at the World Trade Center. The financial firm had a policy that all employees…

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Tagged with: passwords

Cyberthreat to Vital Infrastructure: This is Not a Movie

Posted on November 10, 2014 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Live Free or Die Hard

In the 2007 film “Live Free or Die Hard” NYPD Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) is on a mission to stop a group of terrorist-hackers that have crashed the stock market and are targeting America’s infrastructure including the FAA and…

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Celebrity Nudes and Mobile Malware – Will Your Phone Be Next?

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Jennifer Lawrence - Data Security

Recently, hundreds of intimate and revealing photos of female celebrities, including Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence, were posted online, apparently after being stolen from their iCloud accounts. Some of those images, many of which were presumably taken with iPhones and other Apple…

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Are Hackers Shopping for Your Data on EBay?

Posted on September 24, 2014 by Lauri Donahue Posted in Blog
eBay data security

Consumers visit eBay to bid on everything from abacuses to zithers. Now it turns out that some site users are getting hijacked by scammers. Some product listings have redirected eBay visitors to sites where criminals harvest their passwords. As a…

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Tagged with: eBay

Home Depot Data Breach Could Be the Biggest One – So Far

Posted on September 11, 2014 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Home Depot data breach

The data breach at Home Depot is shaping up to be the biggest one to date, dwarfing even the massive leak of 40 million credit card records at Target last year. The New York Times reports that the number of…

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Tagged with: data breach, Home Depot

Is 2014 “The Year of Encryption”?

Posted on August 19, 2014 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
MIT Technology Review -encryption

  The MIT Technology Review suggests that 2014 is “The Year of Encryption.”   Yahoo encrypted its email service. Google now encrypts search terms. Microsoft says it will encrypt all the data to and from its networks by the end…

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Tagged with: The Year of Data Encryption

Russian Hackers Collect Over One Billion Passwords

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Lauri Donahue Posted in Blog
Russia cybercrime

The New York Times reports that Russian criminal hackers have collected the largest-known horde of stolen Internet credentials ever, including 1.2 billion username/password combinations and half a billion email addresses. The theft dwarfs the recent theft from Target, which involved…

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Security Firm Fakes a Hack Attack on a Hedge Fund, Boasts about Thwarting It

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Lauri Donahue Posted in Blog

In a June interview with CNBC, cybersecurity firm BAE Systems said that it “detected” and “thwarted” a security breach at a large hedge fund that crippled the fund’s high-speed trading strategy and sent information about its trades to unknown off-site…

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Tagged with: BAE Systems

When it comes to Data Security, You Can’t Always Trust Trusted Insiders

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
AT&T Data Breach

AT&T Wireless was recently hit with a security breach that compromised the call records and social security numbers of an undisclosed number of customers. We’ve commented before that companies are reluctant to disclose data breaches because it makes them look…

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Tagged with: AT&T, trusted insider
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