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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on Security

The Department of Justice wants access to encrypted consumer devices but promises not to infiltrate business products or affect critical infrastructure. Barr repeated a common fallacy about a difference between military-grade encryption and consumer encryption: "After all, we are not talking about protecting the nation's nuclear launch codes.

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Ghost Ransomware a Persistent Global Threat to Critical Infrastructure

SecureWorld News

The FBI, CISA, and MS-ISAC have issued a joint cybersecurity advisory warning organizations about Ghost (Cring) ransomware, a sophisticated cyber threat that has been compromising critical infrastructure, businesses, and government entities worldwide.

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Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal

Schneier on Security

Australia, and elsewhere -- argue that the pervasive use of civilian encryption is hampering their ability to solve crimes and that they need the tech companies to make their systems susceptible to government eavesdropping. It doesn't affect the encryption that protects the communications. Sometimes it's about end-user devices.

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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q4 2021

Anton on Security

Random fun new posts: “SOC Technology Failures?—?Do Do They Matter?” Kill SOC Toil, Do SOC Eng” “Anton and The Great XDR Debate, Part 1” Fun posts by topic.

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Anton’s Security Blog Quarterly Q3 2021

Anton on Security

Now, posts by topic. Security operations / detection & response: “Security Correlation Then and Now: A Sad Truth About SIEM” “Can We Have “Detection as Code”?”

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IRS Will Soon Require Selfies for Online Access

Krebs on Security

was originally launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers who might be eligible for discounts at various retail establishments, such as veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. government websites. The IRS says it will require ID.me McLean, Va.-based based ID.me

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How Did Authorities Identify the Alleged Lockbit Boss?

Krebs on Security

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.