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Cyber Legislation Will Cost Businesses and Hurt Economy

Most businesses have paid little attention to the sweeping cybersecurity legislation introduced on Valentine’s Day by Senators Lieberman, Collins, Rockefeller, and Feinstein, even though it could be...

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Social Media Companies Contribute to Cybercrime

Cybercrime is an everyday problem that threatens business operations and causes large out-of-pocket expenses for individual and corporate victims alike.  Although statistics regarding the actual cost...

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Boards Are Still Clueless About Cybersecurity

The Governance of Enterprise Security: CyLab 2012 Report, released today by Carnegie Mellon CyLab and its sponsor, RSA, The Security Division of EMC, examines how boards of directors and senior...

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U.S. Administration's Reckless Cyber Policy Puts Nation at Risk

The Russian security company, Kaspersky Lab, recently contacted IMPACT, the global cybersecurity coordinating center run by the UN's International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and reported that new...

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URGENT: Businesses Must Act to Stop Congress on Cyber Legislation

Stop what you are doing.  Businesses must pick up their phones now and call Congress to stop cyber legislation that is poised to saddle them with intrusive government-mandated risk assessments, costly...

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Congress Needs to Go Back To School on Cyber Legislation

It is somewhat amazing that Congress has wrestled with cybersecurity issues for years, yet remains largely clueless about what to do about it.  Although the Senate tried to push through the...

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Businesses Beware: Heavy-Handed Tactics Planned for Cybersecurity

Businesses need to be on the alert.  After the Senate's Cybersecurity Act of 2012 failed to garner enough votes for passage, the Obama Administration and key members of Congress are now thinking about...

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The Sheep Stop Here: Another Church Committee or Full Review of Privacy Laws...

During the early 1970s, the infamous Church Committee investigated abuses of power by the CIA and FBI, including their spying on U.S. citizens for political purposes and intercepting, opening, and...

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Rockefeller Admits Congress Lacks Foundation for Cybersecurity Legislation

In previous blogs urging businesses to take action to stop the Senate from passing the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, I stated that Congress really did not know the security posture of most companies and...

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Caution: Active Response to Cyber Attacks Has High Risk

Cybersecurity will never get better until we are able to curb cybercrime.  The most important aspect, however, is how we do it.  An alarming new approach seriously being advocated in the U.S. and...

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Google's Media Campaign Against the UN Slapped Down

Google has been a forerunner and one of the most outspoken companies in protecting the right to freedom of information and expression. That is laudable and earned the company respect around the globe....

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Cyber Attacks on Press Reveal Gap in US Diplomacy

On January 30, The New York Times reported that it had been under sustained cyber attacks from Chinese hackers who had infiltrated their system to steal login credentials and information from its...

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Obama's Cybersecurity Action Reaches Too Far

Since nothing has been happening in Washington lately except speeches, President Obama seized the moment and ended his State of the Union day by issuing an Executive Order (EO) and Presidential Policy...

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Mandiant Report on Chinese Hackers is Not News But Its Approach Is

When Mandiant, the company that investigated the recent cyber attacks on the New York Times, released its report yesterday, APT1: Exposing One of China's Cyber Espionage Units, the media grabbed it....

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Convenient Surveillance Is At The Expense of Constitution and Taxpayers

President Obama has referred to himself as a "constitutional law professor," but he seems to have lost the lesson. Rather than expressing concern about whether his Administration was upholding the...

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June 6, 2013: The Day America Found Big Brother in Big Data

Sadly, June 6, 2013, will go down as a watershed moment in American history: the day that Americans realized they have lost their privacy and Fourth Amendment protections to terrorism.  Hopefully, it...

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Americans Must Call for Independent Counsel and Ouster of Clapper

Americans find your voice.  The public must take the lead on the NSA/FBI surveillance issue because it is clear that our leaders are ducking. Since President Obama and his Director of National...

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Don't Be a Cyber Target: A Primer for Boards and Senior Management

Before 2014, companies had become somewhat complacent about breaches.  The media had too; it had to be a big breach before it became headline material.  Then came Target.  Now every board and CEO must...

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It Is A Scandal That No One is Investigating the NSA

I am simply stunned that others have not been calling for a full investigation of the NSA surveillance program (see earlier blog).  It has been nearly eight months since The Guardian's first report on...

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Encounter With Washington, D.C. Police Shows Cops Don't Get It On Racial...

VideoOn October 1, 2014, I helped an African American man named Dennis who was close to being arrested by DC police officers in a case of pure racial profiling.  Two black police officers were...

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