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Even the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has had to walk back on the idea that the world’s glaciers will all be gone within decades due to human-caused carbon powered global warming: but news has now emerged showing that in at least one case human action has absolutely indisputably led to the disappearance of large chunks of glacier.…

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Recently attacks by the not so sophisticated persistent threat focused on e-mail security. In many cases, e-mail credentials were either brute forced, or retrieved from compromised databases (in some of these cases, password re-use was a contributing factor).
During Wednesday’s threat update webcast, I would like to do a segment focusing on e-mail security, and was wondering what our readers do to secure e-mail. Some of the challenges I see:
- the use of cloud based e-mail services like gmail.

- mobile access to e-mail

- access to e-mail from multiple devices

- e-mail encryption and authentication (PGP/S-Mime)

- e-mail forwarding security (if someone has e-mail forwarded to a personal e-mail address)
Please let me know if you have any novel ideas to address these problems that I should cover, or if you would like me to cover any additional questions.
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Johannes B. Ullrich, Ph.D.

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A Senate plan to boost the US government’s ability to regulate the security of companies responsible for critical industries is causing debate as to exactly how far its reach should be.

With sophis…

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SSH attack warning from ICS-CERT just the latest in a series of high-profile vulnerabilities in ’1990s-era security’ SCADA, critical infrastructure world

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