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The Logjam (and Another) Vulnerability against Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
Logjam is a new attack against the Diffie-Hellman key-exchange protocol used in TLS. Basically: The Logjam attack allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to downgrade vulnerable TLS connections to 512-bit ex... -
An Interview with FBI Director Jim Comey
I haven't watched this yet, but it took place yesterday at Georgetown Law's Cybersecurity Law Institute. Ben Powell, former general counsel to the DNI, interviews Jim Comey: -
Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security MOOC
The University of Adelaide has a free new MOOC called Cyberwar, Surveillance and Security that is taught by Melissa de Zwart, Dale Stephens, and Rebecca LaForgia. The web page and registration can be f... -
PCLOB's Rachel Brand on Section 215
The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board's Rachel Brand penned an opinion piece in today's Christian Science Monitor. It opens: The heated debate in Congress about whether to reauthorize Section ... -
NSA Spying Will Begin Winding Down This Week: Justice Department Memo
Dustin Volz of the National Journal has obtained a memo from the Department of Justice circulated among congressional offices today that says the NSA will need to begin taking steps to wind down the bul... -
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
This morning, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a new trove of documents recovered during the May 2011 raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The re... -
ODNI Releases Trove of Documents Discovered in Osama bin Laden Raid
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence today released a new set of documents recovered during the raid of Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan in May 2011. The release contain... -
Down to the Wire on the Patriot Act
Julian Hattem has a good piece in the Hill on the current state of play in the Senate with respect to expiration of the Patriot Act provisions in less than two weeks: Sen. -
DOJ Announces Indictment of 6 Chinese Nationals for Economic Espionage
Yesterday, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of six Chinese nationals on charges of economic espionage and theft of trade secrets "for their roles in a long-running effort to obtain U.S.... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #67: An Interview with Dan Geer
Our guest for Episode 67 is Dan Geer, a legendary computer security commentator and current CISO for In-Q-Tel. We review Dan’s recommendations for improving computer security, including mandatory reporti... -
A Sunset of Section 215 Is Increasingly Likely - And May Prompt Overhaul
Senator Richard Burr, Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently made comments to press suggesting that he believed the sunset for Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act will occur sometim...
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