NopSec

JUNE 16, 2014

No industry is immune to IT security breaches. Recent breaches at Indiana University, Iowa State, the University of Maryland, and the University of North Dakota cumulatively impacted over 750,000 students, alumni, faculty and staff. In the case of higher educational institutions there is data exposure risk from personally identifiable information, such as social security numbers.

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Data breaches Passwords Malware Education 52

Elie

JUNE 24, 2014

What’s the best icon to entice people to share something through their social networks? It turns out to be the one used on Android. While this may contradict guidelines proposed by some designers, this conclusion is based on the results of a survey of 7,500 users.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 13, 2014

The UK Government has launched a new cyber security certification framework called “Cyber Essentials“ This is part of a continuing effort […].

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Government 40

Scary Beasts Security

JUNE 5, 2014

A couple of years ago, during an idle moment, I wondered what we could do if we had the hardware CPU primitive of pages with permissions execute-only (i.e. no read and write): [link] It turns out that aarch64 has exactly such support. Here's support heading in to the Linux kernel: [link] The original idea was to defeat ROP by having all of the instructions randomized a bit on a per-install basis.

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How many people would you trust with your house keys? Chances are, you have a handful of trusted friends and family members who have an emergency copy, but you definitely wouldn’t hand those out too freely. You have stuff that’s worth protecting—and the more people that have access to your belongings, the higher the odds that something will go missing.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 27, 2014

Canada’s Anti-Spam Law (CASL) enters into force on Canada Day, July 1. It was passed in 2010 as a “made-in-Canada” […].

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 5, 2014

This week we look at the last topic in our series of “back to data privacy basics”: individual rights. Rights […].

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