In-brief: An EU Court’s ruling invalidating a 15 year old safe harbor agreement between the US and EU leaves companies with a myriad of choices about how to respond – none of them good.
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Snowden Blowback: EU Invalidates Safe Harbor Agreement for Data
In-brief: Citing the danger of pervasive government surveillance, the European Union abandoned a 15 year-old agreement on data sharing that is one of the underpinnings of the global information commerce.
Pentagon looks to analog monitoring to secure IoT
In-brief: DARPA is directing $36m for the first stage of a program called LADS – Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security, which is looking into analog methods of cyber threat detection, including power consumption monitoring.
Apple Gatekeeper Bug Suggests Sleepy Approach To OS Security
In-brief: A security hole in Apple’s Gatekeeper security software could allow malicious programs to be run on OS X, including the latest release, El Capitan. The researcher who discovered it says that Apple has fallen well behind rival Microsoft in providing security for its operating system.
Life and Limb Exception: Researchers OK Outing Dangerous IoT Holes
In-brief: a survey of security professionals finds they are willing to circumvent vendors who do not respond to reports of security holes in their products.
