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An EU PNR System?
Passenger Name Records (or PNR) are the data collected by an airline at the time of a passenger's reservation. The data in a PNR is often very detailed and robust. It may, for example, include a cell p... -
New NSA Documents on Offensive Cyberoperations
Jacob Appelbaum, Laura Poitras and others have another NSA aticle with an enormous Snowden document dump on Der Spiegel, giving details on a variety of offensive NSA cyberoperations to infiltrate and exp... -
Bits and Bytes
Hackers for Hire. Hacker's List is the new Uber for hacker hiring. "A man in Sweden says he will pay up to $2,000 to anyone who can break into his landlord’s website. -
President Obama Comments on Back-doors in Encryption
We've yet to find a transcript of President Obama's remarks during today's press conference with British Prime Minister David Cameron, but according to several news outlets, the President made a number o... -
The Administration's Cyber Proposals -- Information Sharing
As part of the run-up to the State of the Union address next week, the Administration has been releasing publicly some of its policy proposals. One of the most notable suite of proposals involved new le... -
Did the FBI Just Prevent an Attack in DC from a Homegrown ISIS Supporter?
A very, very big arrest in Cincinnati today, involving allegations that a man named Christopher Cornell (online alias Raheel Mahrus Ubaydah) had planned to travel to DC in order to carry out an attack (v... -
The CENTCOM Twitter Hack
By now, most readers of this blog are well aware that, for a brief period of time yesterday, ISIS cyber warriors (going under the hashtag #CyberCaliphate) took control of the CENTCOM Twitter and You-Tube... -
President Obama's New Cybersecurity Legislative Proposal
The White House has released an overview of the proposal previewed in today's Washington Post which you can read here or below: Since the start of his Administration, when he issued the Cyberspace Policy... -
FBI Director James Comey's Remarks at International Conference on Cyber Security
Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey delivered a speech entitled "Addressing the Cyber Security Threat" at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University. During the speech, Directo... -
Armed Attacks in Cyberspace: A Reply to Admiral Stavridis
Last week, Admiral (Ret.) James Stavridis, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander and presently Dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, correctly expressed concern that “unlik... -
FBI Director James Comey's Remarks Today
I have been unable to find video or audio of FBI Director James Comey's remarks today adding to his prior attribution of the Sony hack to North Korea. Nor has the FBI itself released the text. That said,... -
Help An Elementary School Find Its Lost Drone
It seems Chesterbrook Elementary, of Fairfax County, Virginia, has lost its drone---and now wishes to enlist the help of the community in locating it. Such is the gist of the below email, sent by a scho...
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