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This rule change just made it easier for the government to hack you, wherever you are
The Supreme Court’s changes to Rule 41 could allow judges to authorize the government to access computers anywhere in the world.
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As might be expected, keeping ISIS militants off the Internet is easier said than done
Reuters this morning has an interesting story about ongoing efforts in Iraq to keep Islamic State militants from using the Internet to recruit supporters. How? By keeping them off the Internet entirely.
From the story:
For Iraq then, the key is to stop the militant group from accessing the web at all – a feat, which if achieved, could sever a significant part of a propaganda campaign that has inspired deadly attacks in the West.
Mobile networks are largely inoperable in the Islamic State-held swathes of Iraq, areas which also have little fixed-line broadband infrastructure. Militants instead use satellite dishes to connect to the web, or illicit microwave dishes that hook them into broadband networks in government-held areas, three telecoms industry sources told Reuters.
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Amazon makes it easier to lock down the cloud
If there’s a common refrain in enterprise security these days, it’s that nobody wants to become the next Sony, Experian, Scottrade, Target or Home Depot. Moving workloads to a public cloud service means that companies can leave some of the day-to-day work of securing their infrastructure to professionals who manage those services.
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