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Compliance Facebook's whistleblower and what it means for your data security & GDPR program With the recent testimony in Congress on October 5 by former Facebook employee and now whistleblower, Frances Haugen, has drawn the curtain back on management’s priorities at the company, and it isn’t good. Basically, she claims profits are the top priority among Facebook’s leaders. As a result Evan Blair • 3 min read

News O365 Security: You Get What You Pay For…. US Treasury & Commerce Hacks Expose Microsoft It was made aware to the public via media reporting that a group of sophisticated attackers had gained unauthorized access to internal US Treasury and Commerce Department systems. Now, we don’t have the full technical details of how these compromises were accomplished, but we do know from both press Aaron Turner • 5 min read

Compliance COVID-19: How Your Organization Can Stay Compliant & Secure While Working From Home According to the World Health Organization, COVID-19 is now officially a pandemic. The impact of COVID-19 struck close to home for me this week as at least two attendees at the annual RSA Conference fell ill to the virus.  I spent the entire week in San Francisco at the RSA Aaron Turner • 5 min read

News Does the Raytheon Technologies Merger Threaten National Security? Last month, aerospace giant United Technologies and defense leader Raytheon announced their merger. The new company, Raytheon Technologies Corp, will be the second largest aerospace-defense entity in the world. And while most of the aerospace-defense world reacted with varying degrees of surprise, some are looking at this merger a bit Andy Johnson • 8 min read

News What You (and Your Boss) Need to Know About the Facebook + WhatsApp Merge Things have changed. There was a time in the not-so-distant past when companies and organizations felt confident and secure in communicating via email. As technology developed, many of those entities supplemented their communications by adding text messaging to send quick updates or transmit time sensitive information. These days, most enterprises Andy Johnson • 12 min read

News ClearChat Becomes HighSide, Inc Bottomline Up FrontFor those of you not interested in all of the exciting details, this is what you need to know: ClearChat, Inc is now HighSide, Inc. To get the new HighSide app, all you have to do is boot up your existing install of ClearChat and after about 60 Brendan Diaz • 6 min read

Engineering HighSide Open Sources its Encryption Code Here we open source the encryption modules used in the ClearChat client. We share it under the MIT license in the hope that it will be of use to the public. AESEncryption.py does authenticated AES256 encryption and decryption. highlevelcrypto.py does public key operations like encryption and signing. example. Jonathan Warren • 7 min read

Cryptography & Cybersecurity Forget Apple vs FBI, Slack & Gmail already have Backdoors Apple vs FBI should be the least of your concerns, because right now your emails, chats and files are not private, and they’re certainly not secure.Not at home, and not at work. If you’re like most internet-goers there’s a good chance you’re using some combination Brendan Diaz • 19 min read