Cyber insurance transfers risk but doesn’t replace due care

The ongoing series of high-profile data breaches reported by companies across multiple industry sectors – including major retailers (Target and Home Depot), health insurers (Anthem and Premera), online service vendors (Uber), hotels (Mandarin Oriental and Hilton HHonors),…

Installing Snort on Windows

On March 12, the Sourcefire team announced the release of Snort 2.9.7.2, the latest update to one of the most popular (and open source) network IDS tools. Detailed instructions for installing Snort on either Ubuntu Linux…

Is Clinton’s use of a private email server a big deal or not?

There are two broad questions that may turn out to be more relevant than whether Clinton was, intentionally or inadvertently, keeping from public scrutiny any details about her work as Secretary of State.