Geoffrey Fowler and Evan Perez in the Wall Street Journal write about one practical (and, yes, obvious) takeaway from the Petraeus scandal: "Privacy protections for even the most sophisticated users of consumer-email services actually protect very little." Or, as Kurt Opsahl from the EFF puts it in the article, "If the director of central intelligence isn't able to successfully keep his emails private, what chance do I have?"
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9:01 am Fri
Nov 16, 2012
Lesson from Petraeus CyberClusterFuck: Email isn't safe.
95% of America's largest voting districts' mailservers lack basic anti-phishing protection
DMARC is an anti-email-spoofing tool that mail-server administrators can enable; it's designed to reject emails with forged return addresses.
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Feds charge Evil Corp, Russia-based creators of Dridex malware, in $100 million bank hacking spree
The most on-brand name since “Fraud Guarantee.”
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Daily Harvest is healthy eating for the on-the-go lifestyle
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Every Christmas list has names you dread buying for. But hold up: Before you wave the white flag and get them yet another gift card, scroll down a few. We’ve got 15 items that run the gamut from stylish old-school lighters to cutting-edge audio tech, enough variety to please any Scrooge. And the best part? […]
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