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Critical CISO Initiatives for the Second Half of 2021

In Memoriam: John McAfee
What was it like to work for, and be friends with, the larger-than-life technology entrepreneur back when he helped shape the computer security industry?
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The Role of Encryption in Protecting LGBTQ+ Community Members
The Internet is a vital tool that helps LGBTQ+ community members communicate without fear of persecution -- and strong encryption is a critical part of this equation.Buckland: ministerial offices should be swept for hidden cameras – video

The justice secretary has signalled that ministerial security may have been compromised as he called for regular security sweeps for cameras in ministers’ offices after the Matt Hancock scandal. Hancock resigned as health secretary after CCTV footage from his departmental office showing him kissing his senior aide was leaked to the press
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Active attacks are indiscriminately wiping user devices.Hancock CCTV footage: security may have been breached, minister says

Justice secretary Robert Buckland calls for regular sweeps for hidden cameras in government offices
The justice secretary, Robert Buckland, has signalled that ministerial security may have been compromised as he called for regular security sweeps for cameras in ministers’ offices after the Matt Hancock scandal.
Hancock resigned as health secretary on Saturday following the leak of CCTV images from his departmental office showing him kissing his senior aide Gina Coladangelo.
Continue reading...GitHub bug bounties: payouts surge past $1.5 million mark
GitHub says that 2020 was the “busiest year yet” in vulnerability disclosure.Ministry of Defence employee charged in child pornography case
The charges stem from his participation in the “PedoPub” web forum.John McAfee obituary

As the inventor of the antivirus software that bears his name, John McAfee, who has died aged 75 after apparently taking his own life in a Spanish prison, turned paranoia into a fortune. He was one of the first successful self-promoting celebrity millionaires whose power and media exposure provide untold influence in the US.
Moving from computer savant to spiritual guru, he then began an extended second act in Belize, where his outsized lifestyle fuelled his own personal paranoia, and led to his becoming the leading suspect in the murder of a beachfront neighbour.
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New CPU Baseline for Windows 11 Will Ensure Better Security, Microsoft Says
Redmond's latest OS will run only on systems with TPM 2.0 chips.PS3 Players Ban: Latest Victims of Surging Attacks on Gaming Industry

MyBook Users Urged to Unplug Devices from Internet
Hard drive giant Western Digital is urging users of its MyBook Live brand of network storage drives to disconnect them from the Internet, warning that malicious hackers are remotely wiping the drives using a previously unknown critical flaw that can be triggered by anyone who knows the Internet address of an affected device.FIN7 ‘Pen Tester’ Headed to Jail Amid $1B in Payment-Card Losses

Amazon Acquires Secure Messaging Platform Wickr
AWS CISO Stephen Schmidt says the acquisition is strategic amid the proliferation of remote work.Data Privacy Is in 23andMe CSO's DNA

Cisco ASA Bug Now Actively Exploited as PoC Drops

My Book Live Users Wake Up to Wiped Devices, Active RCE Attacks
