The NSA is ‘Not Made of Magic’
After reading through stacks and stacks of Snowden documents, Schneier says that yes, the NSA is extremely capable and full of smart people but “they are not made of magic”.
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Experts Urge Conservatism on Crypto Standards
A panel of some of the biggest names in cryptography said more conservatism and caution in the development and deployment of encryption is warranted.
RSA’s Coviello Calls for Global Surveillance Reforms, Enhanced Privacy Protection
RSA executive chairman Art Coviello kicked off RSA Conference 2014 with an explanation of his company’s relationship with the NSA.
Despite all of the revelations and accusations and recriminations in the security industry in the last year, Microsoft CSO Scott Charney said he is still optimistic about the industry’s ability to defend users.
Dropbox updated its privacy policy to better address increased concerns regarding how the service handles government requests for user-data.
AT&T, in its first transparency report, said that it received at least 2,000 National Security Letters and nearly 38,000 requests for location data on its subscribers in 2013.
A new campaign, dubbed Operation SnowMan, was been spotted leveraging a previously unknown zero-day in Internet Explorer 10 after the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars’ website was compromised this week.
The U.S. government published a voluntary cybersecurity framework for critical infrastructure operators. The framework is a deliverable out of Executive Order 13636.
Dropbox published its 2013 Transparency Report in which it says it received fewer than 250 national security orders from the secret FISA Court.
The use of surveillance tactics by law enforcement in the performance of precisely targeted criminal investigations is still widely accepted and supported by much of the global public.
