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This is the blog for MindPoint Group's Information Security & Privacy (ISP) division. We hope to use this to contribute to and debate ideas among the ISP community.
05
Apr
2013

What is Happening v. What The Media Says Is Happening

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While cyber security certainly does get coverage in the mainstream media the particular stories that are covered and the way they are covered tends to create a distorted picture of the current landscape. Take for example, what we wrote about back in June of last year here and here. When members of the media confuse

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02
Apr
2013

2013 Reboot

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At the end of this week we’ll be launching our new site, and along with it, our new blog. They will be much better integrated than what we’ve got now, and we’re implementing some things behind the scenes to ensure that we expand our social media presence and are continually sharing more of the great

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11
Oct
2012

October Status Update

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Although, things have been quiet on the blog, we’ve been extremely busy here at MindPoint.  At the end of July we registered for the Global Cyberlympics run by the EC Council.  We had never done one of these before so we just took some volunteers and set out to see what it was all about.

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15
Jun
2012

A Follow-up to An Aside on Classified Information Handling

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Politico has published an article on the recent classified information leak I wrote about here, and this article from The New Republic is sort of a rebuttal to it.  Both of these were actually published the day before mine, but it took a week before I saw them.  In any case, these articles have prompted

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12
Jun
2012

Cyber Warfare, the 0-Day Exploit Market, and the Rest of Us: Part 3

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The last few posts probably sound like something out of a Kurt Vonnegut novel more than anything else. Piecemeal descriptions of some sort of dystopian world in which everyday people are surrounded by the violence of war that they can’t see.  Until the news of Stuxnet started to trickle forth, I would not have believed it, but

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