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Just Culture and Information Security

Adam Shostack

[no description provided] Yesterday Twitter revealed they had accidentally stored plain-text passwords in some log files. There was no indication the data was accessed and users were warned to update their passwords. There was no known breach, but Twitter went public anyway, and was excoriated in the press and on Twitter.

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What Exactly is CyberSecurity?

Joseph Steinberg

Technically speaking, cybersecurity is the subset of information security that addresses information and information systems that store and process data in electronic form, whereas information security encompasses the security of all forms of data (for example, securing a paper file and a physical filing cabinet).

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Sepio Systems: Cybersecurity Expert Joseph Steinberg Joins Advisory Board

Joseph Steinberg

He is also the inventor of several information-security technologies widely used today; his work is cited in over 500 published patents. His opinions are also frequently cited in books, law journals, security publications, and general interest periodicals.

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On the Irish Health Services Executive Hack

Schneier on Security

Under-resourced Information Security Managers were not performing their business as usual role (including a NIST-based cybersecurity review of systems) but were working on evaluating security controls for the COVID-19 vaccination system.

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Welcoming the Czech Republic Government to Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Today, I'm very happy to welcome the Czech Republic's National Cyber and Information Security Agency who can now query their government domains along with the 26 other nations that have come before them. Data breaches impact all of us in one way or another, and government agencies are no exception.

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On the Cybersecurity Jobs Shortage

Schneier on Security

What there is a shortage of are computer scientists, developers, engineers, and information security professionals who can code, understand technical security architecture, product security and application security specialists, analysts with threat hunting and incident response skills.

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Ben Rothke’s Review of A Hacker’s Mind

Schneier on Security

Ben Rothke chose A Hacker’s Mind as “the best information security book of 2023.”