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Archive for April, 2011

(your) information wants to be free

Posted: Thursday, April 28th, 2011 @ 12:46 am in data, privacy, security | 8 Comments »

A couple of weeks ago, Epsilon, an email marketing firm, was breached. If you are a customer of Tivo, Best Buy, Target, The College Board, Walgreens, etc., that means your name and email address were accessed by some attacker. You probably received a warning to watch out for phishing attacks (assuming it wasn’t caught in [...]

grab the pitchforks!… again

Posted: Tuesday, April 19th, 2011 @ 12:49 pm in crypto, data, privacy, web | 10 Comments »

I’m fascinated with how quickly people have reached for the pitchforks recently when the slightest whiff of a privacy/security violation occurs. Last week, a few interesting security tidbits came to light regarding Dropbox, the increasingly popular cloud-based file storage and synchronization service. There’s some interesting discussion of de-duplication techniques which might lead to Oracle attacks, [...]