PhishMe – Keep it focused
In their book, “Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard” authors Chip and Dan Heath examine how influencing humans to change requires appealing to two parts of the brain: the rational and the emotional.
Varonis Unveils DatAlert to Enable Real-Time Detection of Potential Breaches and Unauthorised Changes
LONDON (UK) – September 11, 2013 – Varonis Systems Inc. , the leading provider of access, governance and retention solutions for human-generated data, today announced the launch of the Varonis Data Governance Suite 5.9,
The Russians Have Come… Skolkovo Startups Hit TechCrunch Disrupt
Russia is a booming market for startups as the county’s Internet access and 4G networks ramp up. It’s now the biggest single market in Europe, passing Germany a year ago. At the same time the government realises it needs to ween the economy off its historical addiction to oil, gas and heavy industry. Thus it’s helped set up the Skolkovo Foundation to incubate tech companies. Skolkolvo brought a selection of its startups to Disrupt, so we went trawling the booths for a few Russian gems. Here’s what we found.
Choister
“Choister is a service that helps search, analyze and compare all available educational programs.
Whether you are looking for a degree or a certificate, online or offline, full-time or part-time — Choister will make it easier for you. Choister finds all the educational programs, structures the data, helps users make smart choices, and then sends the motivated students to the schools’ websites.”
Google loses appeal in Street View privacy lawsuit
A U.S. appeals court upheld a district court decision that Google’s collection of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks under its Street View program is not exempt from federal wiretap laws.
Brazil: Alleged US Spying on Oil Company Will Not Affect Auction
Alleged US espionage targeting the Brazilian oil company Petrobras will not delay an oil field auction scheduled for next month, a government official was quoted as saying Tuesday.
NSA Documents Show Spy Agency Violated Privacy Rules
US intelligence officials declassified documents Tuesday revealing the National Security Agency violated privacy rules for three years when it sifted phone records of Americans with no suspected links to terrorists.
Risk Management and Bias: Is Human Nature in Your Way?
When it comes to risk management, I believe one of our biggest vulnerabilities is our ability to make good risk decisions based on the information available to us.
‘Yahoo Boys’ Have 419 Facebook Friends
Earlier this week, I wrote about an online data theft service that got hacked. That compromise exposed a user base of mostly young Nigerian men apparently engaged in an array of cybercrime activities
New EU Data Breach Notification Rules For Telecoms
New EU rules on personal data breach notification for telecoms and ISPs came into force recently (on 25 August 2013).
On the NSA
Let me tell you the story of my tiny brush with the biggest crypto story of the year.
