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Attorney General William Barr on Encryption Policy

Schneier on Security

Yesterday, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy -- what is commonly known as "going dark." Some hold this view dogmatically, claiming that it is technologically impossible to provide lawful access without weakening security against unlawful access. I wrote about all this, and more, in 2013.).

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Attorney General Barr and Encryption

Schneier on Security

Last month, Attorney General William Barr gave a major speech on encryption policy­what is commonly known as "going dark." Some hold this view dogmatically, claiming that it is technologically impossible to provide lawful access without weakening security against unlawful access. I wrote about all this, and more, in 2013.).

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UChecker tool from CloudLinux scans Linux servers

SC Magazine

Oracle Co-Founder Larry Ellison delivers a keynote address at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in 2006. Kaspersky researchers recently discovered a new file-encrypting Trojan built as an executable and linkable format (ELF) that encrypts data on machines controlled by Linux-based operating systems.(Justin

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Tor vs VPN—What is the difference?

Malwarebytes

Since 2006, development of Tor has been conducted by a nonprofit organization called The Tor Project. Your traffic is protected by multiple layers of encryption. Each computer in a Circuit peels back one layer of encryption, to reveal information that only it can see. A VPN assumes you trust your VPN provider.

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39% of Healthcare Organizations Suffered Ransomware Attacks in the Cloud in 2020

CyberSecurity Insiders

The top security measures healthcare organizations are taking in response to cloud security challenges are encryption (78%), review of access rights (75%) and employee training (65%). “An An explosion of telehealth services and the shift of non-clinical employees to WFH increased the need for cloud technologies in the healthcare sector.

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The Origins and History of the Dark Web

Identity IQ

2002 – 2006: Origins of the Tor Project After onion routing was patented, additional computer scientists joined the original development team in 2002 and created the biggest project for onion routing yet: The Onion Routing Project, now commonly known as the Tor Project. Navy patented onion routing in 1998.

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Spotlight Podcast: CTO Zulfikar Ramzan on RSA’s Next Act: Security Start-Up

The Security Ledger

The company which was acquired by storage giant EMC back in 2006 and then became a part of Dell when that company acquired EMC in 2015 re-emerges as an independent company this week, more than six months after it was acquired by a group of investors led by Symphony Technology Group. What does independence looks like?