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The Epsilon Breach: What It Means
If you’re alive and own a computer, you’ve probably received one of the “We’re real sorry…we lost your email address” emails from one of the dozens of vendors whose email lists were compromised in the...
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Krebs: Avoiding Phishing Attacks in the Wake of Epsilon
Here’s a quick take: Brian Krebs at Krebs On Security has posted an excellent article, After Epsilon: Avoiding Phishing Scams & Malware at his Krebs on Security site. The piece discusses the...
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Building A Law Enforcement Intelligence Operation Center, Part II
Patrick Ryder demonstrates the front-end of the NCPD Real Time Intelligence program (Photo: Geoffrey Walter, Mineola Patch) In Part I of this article and podcast, we spoke with Patrick Ryder, the...
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Intel Intelligencer: Bin Laden-Related Links Warning
We were going to run with an entirely different direction this morning but last night’s announcement of the death of Usama bin Laden took the relevance away from what we had on the plate. Today we have...
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Metric of the Week: Europol Crime Report
We might end up running some of this again in the Intel Intelligencer, because the release by Europol last week of its EU Organized Crime Threat Assessment has both a treasure trove of new metrics and...
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Some New Cyber Tools for Law Enforcement
I’ve decided to call today Cyber Thursday because I’m going out on patrol today and testing a new hush-hush technology. I’ll be brief because I’m a little late. Yesterday there were a couple of cool...
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Attacks on Police Networks
Law enforcement agencies must behave as if lives depend upon the security of police computer networks, because they do. Agencies simply must understand that poor network security is something which...
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EPIC sues DHS over Social Media
The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), has filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over what EPIC states is DHS’ failure to comply with Freedom of...
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Anonymous/AntiSec Attack STRATFOR
On 24 December, the illegal computer hacking group AntiSec/Anonymous launched attacks against commercial intelligence provider STRATFOR. STRATFOR provides intelligence to a range of commercial and...
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“With That Revealing Shirt? He Was Just Begging to be Hacked.” Blaming The...
In the days since the STRATFOR breach, I initially gave the firm high marks in communicating with its user base after idiotically allowing all their data go bye-bye. I’m going to modify that stance a...
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