Face ID is Probably Going to Be Annoying, But It’s the Future

There are few companies in the tech industry that have a better sense of what consumers want—and are willing to pay premiums for—than Apple. Often, it seems Apple’s marketers and engineers know more about our product desires than we do, and the company is quite adept at satisfying those wants.

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The Data Breach (Amazon) Bucket List

The leak of data on U.S. veterans this week is just the latest to be tied back to insecure cloud-based storage. What’s going on? Let’s take a look.

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Dragonfly Hackers Gain Access to Global Energy Operations

A group of attackers with suspected ties to the Russian government has been conducting a long-term campaign that has penetrated the networks of energy providers in both the United States and Europe, giving them access to vital systems and the potential ability to cause power disruptions at their leisure.

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South Carolina School District Does the Ransomware Two Step

A South Carolina school district is the latest to do the ransomware two step: assuring parents that data encrypted and held hostage by the criminals wasn’t “accessed” by them. Nice try.

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The Thin Border Between Privacy and Security

Digital rights and privacy advocates are urging a court of appeals to require law enforcement agents at the U.S. border to obtain warrants when they want to search someone’s digital device.

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Game of Pwns: What you need to know about the massive HBO data breach

The hack of everyone’s favorite entertainment mill could be bigger than the hack of Sony Entertainment. We break down what happened.

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Washington Has Had Enough Of Your Terrible IoT Devices

A new bill introduced in the Senate this week has the potential to make some actual progress on IoT security by using the rather large checkbook of the federal government as the motivating force.

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A New Dawn for DLP: Digital Guardian Releases its Analytics & Reporting Cloud (ARC)

Today is truly a new dawn for DLP and with it we shine a light on all threats targeting customers’ most sensitive information. As traditional DLP vendors remain focused on compliance and controlling the insider, Digital Guardian is evolving its technologies: both in the network and on the endpoint to enable a complete understanding of the threats that target data. With that, Digital Guardian is announcing the release of our new Analytics and Reporting Cloud (DG ARC).

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Is a ransomware infection always a data breach? Yes.

FedEx’s disclosure of a material impact from NotPetya last week highlighted the awkward two-step that companies play around malware outbreaks and data breaches.

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Uncovering Password Habits: Are Users’ Password Security Habits Improving? (Infographic)

We surveyed 1,000 people about their password security habits. Here’s what we found.

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