Tag: Government

  • Swedish Government Blamed for Mega Data Leak

    The Swedish government is facing intense criticism after reports claimed it responsible for one of the world’s biggest and most damaging public sector data breaches ever recorded. Local media reports summarized by The Local claim that the incident stemmed from the Swedish Transport Agency (STA), which outsourced its IT infrastructure to IBM back in 2015…

  • Addressing the deficit in cyber security workforce and national policy

    Whether they like it or not, in this day and age nearly all organizations have to think about their cybersecurity posture and find a way to minimize cybersecurity risk. But the main problem about doing the latter is that nobody can effectively assess the cybersecurity risk of organizations (or third parties, cyber insurance, or systems/devices/IoT…

  • Study: Zero days rediscovered much faster

    New research from Harvard suggests that the freshly discovered software flaws called zero day vulnerabilities are independently rediscovered much faster than previously thought. The rediscovery rate has big implications for U.S. Read full news article on Cyberscoop  

  • US Justice Department shuts down dark web market AlphaBay with the help of international partners

    The US Justice Department said on Thursday it had shut down the dark web marketplace AlphaBay, working with international partners to knock offline the site accused of allowing a global trade in drugs, firearms, computer hacking tools and other illicit goods. Authorities said the law enforcement action was one of the largest ever taken against…

  • Hansa Market on Dark Web was controlled by Dutch police

    In a simultaneous press conference issued by the Dutch police and US Attorney General Jeff Sessions we learned that the Dark Web market places Alphabay and Hansa market have been seized and shut down by international cooperating authorities. As it turned out Hansa Market was already under control of the Dutch police for 27 days. Read…

  • Senator calls for review of energy infrastructure cybersecurity policy

    The top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is calling on two government agencies to review current policies that guide how America’s power grids and pipelines defend against cyberattacks. The request comes in the form of two letters demanding a review of U.S. Read full news article on Cyberscoop  

  • How #Fontgate Could Bring Down The Pakistani Government

    in Word changed with the release of Microsoft Office 2007, from Times New Roman to Calibri. According to prosecutors in Pakistan, the daughter of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is one such user, and her mixup could lead to the downfall of the Pakistani government. Read full news article on Forbes.com  

  • UK Government to Invest £21m in NHS Cybersecurity

    The UK government is to invest £21m in a bid to beef up cybersecurity within the NHS in the wake of the devastating WannaCry cyber-attack that took many of the organization’s services offline and had a detrimental effect on patient-care. Jeremy Hunt, the health secretary, wants the additional money to be used to thwart future…

  • Where Trump’s FBI nominee stands on tech’s hot privacy issues

    While questions about Russia attracted more initial scrutiny at his Senate confirmation hearing today, Trump’s proposed James Comey replacement Chris Wray did offer a few clues on his ideas about the digital privacy of American citizens. On encryption: Read full news article on TechCrunch  

  • Trump hotel guests had their credit card information hacked (again)

    According to a new report from the Washington Post, Trump Hotels has been hacked again. The 14 affected properties include Trump Central Park, Trump Chicago, Trump Las Vegas and Trump DC with most of the hacks occurring between November 2016 and March 2017. Read full news article on TechCrunch  

  • White House cyber czar says norms push will move to small group of allies

    The Trump administration will continue its predecessor’s push for the adoption of global cyber norms, but is putting efforts to do so through the United Nations on the back burner, preferring instead to work with small groups of allied countries, White House cybersecurity czar Rob Joyce said Tuesday. This new “coalition of the willing” strategy seems at odds…

  • Nominations Open for the 2017 IDC Government Insights Federal IT Rankings

    Annual rankings categorize and evaluate technology providers based on revenues from government institutions for hardware, software, and/or IT services FRAMINGHAM, Mass., July 11 2017 – Nominations are now open for the second annual IDC Government Insights Federal IT Rankings, an industry award program that categorizes and evaluates the revenues of leading global technology and service…

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