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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection. They collect everything about what we do on the Internet. Before the. Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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It’s a Holiday Security Breach Blowout

SiteLock

The next notification I received was for an earlier intrusion, the 2013 compromise of 2.4 For end users and consumers, protection against data breaches is difficult as we all now trust others to be good stewards of our personal details. million student records from the local community college system I attend.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: EP 69 Self-Healing Operating Systems

ForAllSecure

I first met Dan when he was literally saving the world; okay, at least saving the internet as we know it today by disclosing to the major ISPs in the world a flaw he’d found in the Domain Name System or DNS. Dan found a flaw that could have crippled the internet. Oh, one of the things so we developed a time travel debugger.