Tag: Government Security
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Government Security Vulnerabilities Surge By 151%, Report Finds
The government sector has witnessed the most significant growth in crowdsourced security in 2023, marking a 151% increase in vulnerability …
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Half of Government Security Incidents Caused by Missing Patches
Cybersecurity is both a driver and a major barrier to public sector IT modernization, according to new research from BAE Systems Applied …
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Government Security Supplier Suffers Double Breach
A French cybersecurity company with government clients revealed this week that an unauthorized third party has stolen customer data and …
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Facial recognition – another setback for law enforcement
So far this year, the use of facial recognition by law enforcement has been successfully challenged by courts and legislatures on both …
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‘Anonymous’ takes down Atlanta Police Dept. site after police shooting
Following Friday’s fatal police shooting of Rayshard Brooks – a 27-year-old Black man who fell asleep in a fast-food drive-in lane in …
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Congress wants to know who is using spyware against the US
On 1 May 2018, the richest man in the world was having a seemingly friendly WhatsApp conversation with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince …
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Nuclear missile contractor hacked in Maze ransomware attack
The US is protected by what’s known as a nuclear triad: a three-pronged attack force that consists of land-launched nuclear missiles, …
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FBI finally unlock shooter’s iPhones, Apple berated for not helping
The FBI said on Monday that it figured out how to unlock the iPhones of the shooter who killed three young US Navy students and injured …
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Uncle Sam to agencies: No encrypted DNS for you!
The US federal government has been protecting its users by blocking malicious destinations for years, but it won’t let them take …
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Hackers target WHO in phishing attack
A cyberattack that targeted the World Health Organization (WHO) is probably just the tip of the iceberg according to experts reacting to …
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Tour guide/Chinese spy gets four years for SD card dead drops
A naturalized US citizen who was working as a tour guide in San Francisco has been sentenced to four years in prison for being a Chinese …
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DDoS attack on US Health agency part of coordinated campaign
Just because a website offers critical public information about the COVID-19 virus pandemic doesn’t mean Distributed Denial of Service …
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