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SC Magazine Blogs

The SC Blogs present timely and incisive opinion and thought leadership on the hot-button issues affecting the security industry. We feature the latest information on significant breaches and our commentary on news and trends in the industry.

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On CISPA: Threat info sharing shouldn't be a spy project

Dan Kaplan April 24, 2012

Private and public sectors must take seriously the need to share threat data to prevent cyber attacks, but a heavy-handed approach like CISPA places us at far greater risk as a country.

Apple is the richest company in the world, but it's not very good at dealing with malware

Dan Kaplan April 06, 2012

It's time for Apple to step up its game when it comes to dealing with security threats.

Can Anonymous force its victims to reconsider their actions?

Dan Kaplan January 31, 2012

Hugh Thompson, an adjunct professor at Columbia and program committee chairman of the RSA Conference, got me thinking that, in the face of hacktivism, security these days also means deliberating business practices.

The government has it wrong on Anonymous and critical infrastructure

Dan Kaplan October 19, 2011

When it comes to stopping individuals who want to compromise industrial control systems, the Anonymous group is certainly not Enemy No. 1.

"Sophistication" and the downfall of security

Dan Kaplan September 28, 2011

Hiding the facts behind a cyberattack only stands to benefit the criminal.

Unencrypted hospital laptop exposes 2k patient records

Greg Masters May 23, 2012

An employee of the Boston Children's Hospital lost a laptop holding patient information.

Hacked UMaine server leads to exposed personal data

Marcos Colon May 21, 2012

Sensitive data belonging to people who made web-based purchases at the University of Maine's Orono Campus may have been stolen after the school's server suffered a security breach.

Data on 700K California home care workers, recipients lost

Marcos Colon May 14, 2012

The personal information of home care workers and their elderly and disabled recipients may have been compromised when the storage device on which it was contained was lost in the mail.

350,000 SSNs exposed in UNC-Charlotte breach

Marcos Colon May 11, 2012

The Social Security numbers and financial account information of students and staff at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte were exposed during an online security breach.