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It’s the Culture … and Dead Canaries

January 4, 2016 – 6:00 am – It appears that Volkswagen’s internal auditors “… found no evidence to suggest that members of the executive board or supervisory board were involved in the diesel fraud …” according to an article “VW Says ‘Culture’ Flaw Led To Crisis” by William Boston, Hendrik Varnholt…
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Beating Around the Proverbial Cybersecurity Bush

October 13, 2014 – 6:00 am – If I’ve said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times … until we put real teeth into cybersecurity enforcement and insist upon serious personal legal consequences for those at the top, we won’t see improvement. We’ve beaten around the bush for far too long. How many more breaches,…
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Security in the Dark

December 6, 2011 – 6:00 am – I attended a roundtable recently at which someone mentioned that, in their experience, those familiar contractual requirements requesting third-party service providers to tell their customers about security breaches within a short time frame (within three  hours, say) are often not conveyed to…
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US Drones Hack: It’s The Same Old Story

December 18, 2009 – 11:00 am – CNN reports that Iraqi insurgents were able to hack and view live feeds from US Spy Drones. The vulnerability was a non-technical one. The article summarized the issue as thus: The official said that many of the UAV feeds need to be sent out live to numerous people at one time, and encryption was…
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