Collaborate Disseminate
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to use every arrow in its prosecutorial quiver to go after those participants who are exposing and sharing U.S. research and technologies to China via the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Th… Continue reading DoJ Continues to Target China’s Thousand Talents Program in U.S.
The world continues to reel from COVID-19, as the pandemic rages on. In China, government entities are explicitly stating they are in test, trace and isolate mode. In “COVID-19: Contact Tracing Your Privacy or Your Health,” we noted the role the China … Continue reading Quarantine Monitoring: China Throws Privacy Out the Door
The well-publicized publishing of 25,000+ emails and passwords allegedly associated with the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health has captured the attention of both infosec practitioner and the layman. … Continue reading COVID Email Attack or Email Harvesting?
We continually hear of the need for COVID-19 contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published guidance on contact tracing during the 2006 Ebola epidemic. In that guide, it explained how tracing… Continue reading COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Your Privacy for Your Health?
As we sit here at the beginning of April, it is sometimes hard to remember that it was Nov. 17, 2019, when China discovered a virus emanating from a central fish and wildlife market in the city of Wuhan. The virus has become known as Novel Coronavirus… Continue reading COVID-19: China and Russia Disinformation and Shenanigans
The prosecution of former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski ended March 20 when he agreed to plead guilty to one count of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Alphabet’s Waymo after pilfering Waymo’s intellectual property (IP). In e… Continue reading Levandowski Admits to Stealing Waymo’s IP
As COVID-19 mauls the travel sector and hotels, airlines and cruise lines shutter their doors or park their planes and ships, this interlude may present them an opportunity to address how they handle passenger information. Each of these sectors of the… Continue reading Data Privacy and Security in the Travel Industry
Recently the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) sent a warning to all concerned about the efforts of Hamas to identify, contact, engage, socially engineer and then compromise IDF personnel. Surprise of surprises: Hamas had created a half-dozen personas, all … Continue reading Women of Hamas and Their Social Engineering Skills
As the 2020 election season shifts into high gear, the importance of election security becomes one of the most important issues facing the U.S. Thousands of hours have been spent within government investigating and discussing the role played by Russia… Continue reading Election Security a 2020 Myth?
For a video security service that has found its way into millions of homes, privacy and trust are the keystones of remaining in place. Ring, the Amazon-owned video/security service, has been stumbling over its own feet for months as the company addres… Continue reading The Klaxon Sounds on Ring’s Privacy, Trust Issues