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Today’s authentication requirements go way beyond hooking into a database or directory and challenging every user and service for an Id and password. Authentication and the login experience, is the application entry point and can make o… Continue reading How To Build An Authentication Platform
Researchers at the Army Research Lab (ARL) within the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command and Towson University are collaborating on an effort to make intrusion detection alerts more useful to cybersecurity teams by making it possible to … Continue reading U.S. Army, Towson University Aim to Advance Intrusion Detection
Bad actors used a ransomware attack to target the Israeli offices of the customer engagement and digital intelligence company Verint. On 17 April, ZDNet received a screenshot taken by an employee who works at one of Verint’s Israeli offices. The … Continue reading Ransomware Attack Targeted Data Intelligence Firm Verint
Estonia’s foreign intelligence agency says it is “very likely” that the Russian government will try to interfere in the European Union parliamentary elections in May. The Kremlin’s meddling will likely focus on France, Germany and Italy, which hold the most EU parliamentary seats, in a concerted effort to “secure as many seats as possible for pro-Russian or euro-skeptical political forces,” the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service said Tuesday in an external security report focused on threats from Russia. The European Parliament’s status as the only EU institution directly elected by the people makes it a prime target for Russian influence operations, the EFIS said, adding that the proportional election system favors marginal parties and that Members of European Parliament (MEPs) can be used as mouthpieces for Russian propaganda. The Kremlin has wooed European politicians by inviting them to a 2016 conference in the Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, the report […]
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A Chinese intelligence officer has been extradited to the United States after being charged with conspiracy to commit economic espionage against certain U.S. firms. On 10 October, the U.S. government unsealed an indictment filed by a federal grand jury… Continue reading Chinese Intelligence Officer Extradited to the United States for Espionage Charges
Earlier this month, I wrote about a statement by the Five Eyes countries about encryption and back doors. (Short summary: they like them.) One of the weird things about the statement is that it was clearly written from a law-enforcement perspective, though we normally think of the Five Eyes as a consortium of intelligence agencies. Susan Landau examines the details… Continue reading More on the Five Eyes Statement on Encryption and Backdoors
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that a Chinese national had been arrested for allegedly acting within the United States as an illegal agent of the People’s Republic of China. With the presumption of innocence indicated throug… Continue reading China Fails in Attempt to Infiltrate the U.S. Army Reserves
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The post GrrCon Augusta 2018, Tomasz Bania’s ‘Intelligence Creating Intelligence: Leveraging What You Know To Improve Finding What You Don’t ‘ appeared first on Securit… Continue reading GrrCon Augusta 2018, Tomasz Bania’s ‘Intelligence Creating Intelligence: Leveraging What You Know To Improve Finding What You Don’t ‘
The Five Eyes — the intelligence consortium of the rich English-speaking countries (the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand) — have issued a "Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption" where they claim their needs for surveillance outweigh everyone’s needs for security and privacy. …the increasing use and sophistication of certain encryption designs present challenges for… Continue reading Five-Eyes Intelligence Services Choose Surveillance Over Security
Interesting story of a CIA intelligence network in China that was exposed partly because of a computer security failure: Although they used some of the same coding, the interim system and the main covert communication platform used in China at this time were supposed to be clearly separated. In theory, if the interim system were discovered or turned over to… Continue reading CIA Network Exposed through Insecure Communications System