Category «Computer Security»

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, July 4, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: CISA Begins Cataloging Bad Practices that Increase Cyber Risk; Google Is Adding Support for Digital Covid-19 Vax Cards into Android; How a Burner Identity Protects Your Inbox, Phone, and Cards; and Scientist Finds Early Coronavirus Sequences That Had Been Mysteriously Deleted.

Subjects: AI, Big Data, Computer Security, Congress, Courts & Technology, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Healthcare, KM, Legal Research, Legislative, Privacy, Search Engines

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 23, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: US to ramp up tracking of domestic extremism on social media; Protecting agency assets begins with identity-centric security; Colonial Pipeline Cyberattack Highlights Need for Better Federal and Private-Sector Preparedness; and Cyber Attacks – A Rising Threat (Infographic).

Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Data Mining, Energy, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, May 8, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say; Ransomware attack leads to shutdown of major U.S. pipeline system; Google Plans to Automatically Enroll Users In Two Factor Authentication (2FA);

Subjects: Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Resources, Healthcare, Legal Research, Legislative, Privacy, Travel

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, March 6, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: You Can’t Launder Bitcoins!; You got a vaccine. Walgreens got your data; NSA Pushes Zero Trust Principles to Help Prevent Sophisticated Hacks; and Accidental Wiretaps: The Implications of False Positives By Always-Listening Devices For Privacy Law & Policy.

Subjects: Business Research, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Healthcare, Privacy, Social Media

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, February 6, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: 30% of ‘SolarWinds’ Victims Did Not Actually Use SolarWinds Software, Feds Say; Tough to Get Help Opting Out of Data Sharing; Police in Almost All U.S. States Use Amazon’s Ring Program; and Russian hack brings changes, uncertainty to U.S. court system.

Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Courts & Technology, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Government Resources, Legal Research, Legislative, Privacy

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 10, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: SolarWinds Hackers Got Into More Than 3,000 DOJ Email Accounts; Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach; CISA:Hackers access to federal networks without SolarWinds; and State Department Approves Creation of Cyber Bureau.

Subjects: Computer Security, Criminal Law, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Government, Email Security, KM, Legal Research, Privacy, Software, Spyware, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, January 3, 2021

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Four highlights from this week: Zoom scam alert: Never click on this kind of invite; The Most Dangerous People on the Internet in 2020; She didn’t know her kidnapper. But he was using Google Maps — and that cracked the case; and CISA updates SolarWinds guidance, tells US govt agencies to update right away.

Subjects: AI, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cyberlaw, Cybersecurity, Disaster Planning, E-Government, Economy, Email Security, Financial System, Government Contracts, Healthcare, Privacy, Search Engines

Microsoft Edge Browser – New and Improved

Catherine Reach has run the latest version of Microsoft Edge through its paces, and identifies the browser’s useful features (including security and privacy) and collaborative tools that make it worthy of your review and perhaps – switching from Chrome.

Subjects: Computer Security, Cybersecurity, Legal Research, Legal Technology, Search Engines, Search Strategies, Technology Trends

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, December 20, 2020

Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: News of SolarWinds breach impacting federal government agencies and the private sector; Facebook ‘Secretly’ Tracks Your iPhone Location – This Is How To Stop It; Microsoft: New malware can infect over 30K Windows PCs a day; U.S. Schools Are Buying Phone-Hacking Tech That the FBI Uses to Investigate Terrorists; and All the privacy apps you should have downloaded in 2020.

Subjects: Communications, Computer Security, Cybercrime, Cyberlaw, Cybersecurity, Email Security, Government Resources, Military, Privacy, Social Media, Spyware, Technology Trends

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