Everybody sing….
It’s My Data
and I’ll Cry If I Want To
Cry If I Want To
Cry If I Want To
You would cry to if it happened to you!
DATA
New Declassification Reforms Are Classified By Steven Aftergood • August 23, 2021
Legislative measures to improve the process of declassifying classified national security information were introduced by Sen. Ron Wyden in the pending intelligence authorization act for FY2022. But they were included in the classified annex so their substance and import are not publicly known.
Attackers use Morse code, other encryption methods in evasive phishing campaign
How Data Brokers Sell Access to the Backbone of the Internet
FBI Palantir glitch allowed unauthorized access to private data – Ben Feuerherd
A computer glitch in a secretive software program used by the FBI allowed some unauthorized employees to access private data for more than a year, prosecutors revealed in a new court filing.
The screw-up in the Palantir program — a software created by a sprawling data analytics company co-founded by billionaire Peter Thiel — was detailed in a letter by prosecutors in the Manhattan federal court case against accused hacker Virgil Griffith.
Samsung South Africa activates TV Block function to render all TV sets useless that were looted and stolen in July.
by Thinus Ferreira
Samsung South Africa has announced that it has activated a TV Block Function on all Samsung TV sets stolen during the looting, violence and unrest in parts of KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng during July that saw TV sets stolen from Samsung warehouses.
[just who actually owns your TV?]
DHS Launching First Federal Civilian Position Exempt from Longevity Requirements
The Cyber Talent Management System has been in the works since a 2014 law granted the department authorities to sidestep rigid classification formats such as the General Schedule.
By MARIAM BAKSH
AUGUST 25, 2021 04:21 PM ET
The Department of Homeland Security is officially establishing a recruitment and retention system it says re-envisions the federal government’s current talent management to meet its demand for cybersecurity workers.
Apple already scans iCloud Mail for CSAM, but not iCloud Photos
The Truth About Cyber Warfare’s Impact On Airpower BY JUSTIN BRONK AUGUST 18, 2021
There’s a lot of bad info out there about how the cyber and aerial
domains of warfare will converge. Here’s the reality, for better or
worse.
CitizenLab: Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
From Pearl to Pegasus Bahraini Government Hacks Activists with NSO Group Zero-Click iPhone Exploits
OK let’s talk Elizebeth. The legend.
The codebreaker Elizebeth Smith Friedman was born on this day in 1892.
I got curious about her 6 years ago, found one of the wildest true stories I’d ever heard, and wrote “The Woman Who Smashed Codes.” 1/
Born in 1892 to a large family of Indiana Quakers, she studied poetry, not math. But then she taught herself to be a codebreaker. 2/ Her husband was William Friedman, the godfather of the NSA. Elizebeth caught Nazi spies in WWII and so, so, much more like 007 more !!!!
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