Category «Cybersecurity»

Protect your online identity now: Fight hackers with these 5 security safeguards

ZDNET – Having your identity stolen can be a nightmare, and cleaning up the mess can take months. You can make life difficult for a would-be identity thief by locking down these five key aspects of your online life. “…You don’t have to be the next victim. With a little effort (and, yes, a little expense), …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, ID Theft, Internet

Mary Meeker – Internet Trends 2019

Mary Meeker, general partner at venture capital firm Bond Capital, delivered her annual Internet Trends slideshow – for 2019 it is 333 pages. “Recode has pulled out some of the significant and most interesting trends in Meeker’s report: Some 51 percent of the world — 3.8 billion people — were internet users last year, up …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Economy, Financial System, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Privacy, Social Media

Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient and obsolete”

ars technica – Bucking a major trend, company speaks out against the age-old practice. ” Microsoft is finally catching on to a maxim that security experts have almost universally accepted for years: periodic password changes are likely to do more harm than good. In a largely overlooked post published late last month, Microsoft said it …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Internet

LLRX – Articles for April and May 2019

Articles for April – May 2019 Casetext’s New ‘SmartCite’ Citator Is Its Clever Answer to Shepard’s and KeyCite Terms, Tags, and Classification Whither Law Student Information Literacy? Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues May 26, 2019 – Four highlights from this week: Finland is winning the war on fake news. Other nations …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Records, Education, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries, Privacy, Search Engines

Lessons Learned Trying to Secure Congressional Campaigns

Idle Worlds: “You know how it happens. You try to secure one Congressional campaign, and then another, and pretty soon you can’t stop. You’ll fly across the country just to brief a Green Party candidate in a district the Republicans carried by 60 points. You want more, more, always looking for that next fix.This is …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Intellectual Property, Internet, Knowledge Management, Legal Research

Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues May 26, 2019

Via LLRX – Privacy and security issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Internet, Privacy

CRS – The Federal Bureau of Investigation: Just the Facts

The Federal Bureau of Investigation: Just the Facts – May 12, 2017: “The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has more than 36,000 employees and describes itself as an “intelligence-driven, threat-focused national security organization.”It is a part of the Department of Justice and the Director of the FBI reports to the U.S. Attorney General and the …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, E-Mail, E-Records, Government Documents, Legal Research

You’re Not Alone When You’re on Google

The New York Times – We know that. But the “privacy paradox” means we still act like we are. “…To fully apprehend our vulnerabilities as digital creatures would require far too much time and energy. More than that: It would require an entirely new set of instincts, a radically different cognitive framework from the one …

Subjects: Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, ID Theft, Internet, Privacy, Search Engines, Social Media

10 Ways for Congress to Respond to the Mueller Report

POGO – “Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election has been public for nearly three weeks. Since then, Members of Congress on both sides of the political aisle have debated the report’s findings, and there are many disturbing issues raised in it that Congress could …

Subjects: Congress, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Financial System, Government Documents, Legal Research, Privacy