Category: News
The latest expose (thanks, Wall Street Journal) of the 500,000 accounts of Google+ users and the silence that Google maintained, despite having discovered and patched the bug back in March, triggered a thought process that culminated in this article. One of …
For years, China has systematically looted American trade secrets. Here’s the messy inside story of how DC got Beijing to clean up its act for a while. DANDONG IS A sprawling border town that sits just across the Yalu River from …
A new report says the Department of Defense “likely has an entire generation of systems that were designed and built without adequately considering cybersecurity.” THE FIRST STEP in solving any problem is admitting there is one. But a new report from the US …
Watchdog spotlights DoD cyber risks — Cybercrime ringleader indicted Election integrity advocates released a report today cautioning against online voting as an overlooked threat to election infrastructure. It’s susceptible to cyberattacks at nearly every point in the journey from voter to county …
The AV-TEST Institute recently tested the most popular Windows 10 client antivirus products on three primary criteria: protection, performance, and usability. Only five of the 18 products tested earned a perfect rating of 6 for each of those criteria: Bitdefender …
China chip hacking story continues to mystify — Half of agencies meeting email anti-spoofing standard Election Day is four weeks away and MC will be watching several races closely for their potential impact on cybersecurity policy. — Will Hurd: Considered to be …
Google got caught hiding a privacy issue affecting 500,000 users on the same day it rolled out privacy protections. GOOGLE ANNOUNCED ON Monday that it is shuttering its Google+ social network, following revelations in a Wall Street Journal report that the company did not disclose …
This is for a variety of reasons, including a lack of faith in law enforcement’s ability to help, failure to see how reporting a cyber crime has any benefit, belief that the organisation or incident is too small for police …
Founding members of the initiative, including Andrzej Kawalec at Vodafone, Jonathan Luff at CyLon and James Sulivan at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), have contributed to a report into the challenges facing the cyber security community in the digital age. The report addresses …
By now, the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, is in full effect. Users see its impact each time a website asks for permission to collect cookies and in each notification email about updated privacy policies. Companies are being inundated …
EVER AGAIN(?) — With the midterms now just four months away, DNC staffers are getting better at flagging phishing emails, to the point where 80 percent of DNC staffers don’t click the links right away. “People have such PTSD about what …
Justice Department will soon release a report describing how its many agencies and components tackle cyber threats. DOJ officials delivered the report to Attorney General Jeff Sessions late last week, a department spokesman told Eric, four months after Sessions created a cyber task force …
Congress has had a pretty productive week-plus of advancing meaningful cyber legislation, and today it considers yet another meaty bill. The House Foreign Affairs Committee will mark up a bipartisan measure (H.R. 5576) that directs the executive branch to “name and shame” …
One of the conveniences of smart devices such as thermostats, lights, locks, speakers, and cameras is that they can be remotely controlled. But remotely controlling smart home technology has also become a modern pattern of behavior in domestic abuse. Do …
The House Intelligence Committee is finishing up work on a report that will call for a major restructuring of the Defense Intelligence Agency that would allow it to refocus on core missions, including digital espionage and cyber threats, Martin reports. …
The new list of the 500 swiftest machines underlines how much faster China is supercomputers. America is now home to the world’s speediest supercomputer. But the new list of the 500 swiftest machines underlines how much faster China is building …
As security providers, venues and law enforcement look to increase public safety while also reducing “soft target” dangers caused by security checkpoints, automated security tied to a person’s identity is increasingly becoming the norm. s security providers, venues and law …
Fresh warnings about the vulnerability of national infrastructure to cyber attacks show the need for securing and monitoring associated control systems connected to the internet The commander of Britain’s Joint Forces Command has warned that UK traffic control systems and …
On May 25, 2018, the European Union officially enacted the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which will have a transformative effect on how companies manage and secure personal data. The GDPR marks the biggest change to EU data privacy laws …
Over the past two years, I have seen a number of memes across the Internet decrying personal income tax and how the government worked just fine without taxes before 1913. Over the past two years, I have seen a number …
