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Has Wikileaks founder Julian Assange officially been charged with any unspecified criminal offense in the United States? — YES
United States prosecutors have accidentally revealed the existence of criminal charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assa… Continue reading Secret Charges Against Julian Assange Revealed Due to “Cut-Paste” Error
Sounds like a triple-reverse-Stockholm-syndrome-interrogatory, plus a rare reference by Michael Hayden: Note his ‘“These folks are not cyberdumb.” comment. All via Kathy Gilsinan, an Associate Editor at The Atlantic asking ‘Why Haven’t Ter… Continue reading DefenseOne’s ‘Why Haven’t Terrorists Hit the US with a Devastating Cyber Attack?’
It’s widely acknowledged that the cyber security workforce needs more talented young people to engage. Just as we, at SE Labs, want to help fix information technology security by testing products and services, we also want to encourage an interest amon… Continue reading SE Labs introducing cyber security to schools
Russia and China have been ramping up their military presence in space in order to keep up with American capabilities. Continue reading ‘Very Abnormal’ Russian Satellite Escalates Fears of Orbital Arms Race
In June of this year, Chinese hackers managed to install software into the networks of a contractor for the U.S. Navy and steal information on a roughly $300 million top secret submarine program. Two years ago, hackers infiltrated the networks of a vendor servicing the Australian military and made off with files containing a trove […] Continue reading RiskRecon’s security assessment services for third party vendors raises $25 million
The number of U.S. national security-related data requests by the government to Apple Inc. more than doubled last year, according to a biannual transparency report released by the consumer tech giant Friday. Apple received 16,249 national security requests across 8,249 accounts between July 1 – December 31, 2017, almost three times higher than the amount of requests received during the same period in 2016, when the company saw just 5,999 such requests, according to Reuters. “The national security requests demand that Apple provide information in response to U.S. National Security legal authorities…Though we would like to be more specific, by law this is the most precise information we are currently allowed to disclose,” Apple’s privacy policy reads. Other major tech firms also saw jumps in national security requests between the end of 2016 and the first half of 2017, Reuters reports. Facebook saw such requests nearly double, and Google reported […]
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Tripwire had serious concerns with a cybersecurity bill that was passed by the Georgia legislature in early April. It was Tripwire’s concern that the bill would actually increase cybersecurity risks by criminalizing responsible non-malicious secu… Continue reading Georgia Governor Vetoes Cybersecurity Bill S.B. 315
DOD Bans On-Base Sale Huawei, ZTE Mobile Devices
via Graham Cluley, writing at GrahamCluley.com, comes this interesting story, originaly via Stu Woo and Gordon Lubold, both at The Wall Street Journal, in which, Messrs. Woo and Lubold detail the banni… Continue reading DOD, The Banning
Sending cybersecurity work offshore isn’t just a bad idea for individual organizations; it can be a security issue. Facing a severe shortage of qualified cybersecurity workers—the InfoSec unemployment rate is expected to be zero until at least 2021—ma… Continue reading The Danger in Outsourcing Cybersecurity to Foreign-Based Firms
The Russian government is behind a number of cyberattacks that target network infrastructure devices such as routers, Network-based Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) and firewalls in US homes and businesses for cyberespionage, informs a technical alert… Continue reading Kremlin accused of sponsoring cyberattacks targeting US national security