It’s just one of many SOP SNAFUs of a pilot program for advanced searches of travelers’ devices that doesn’t even have performance metrics.
Tag Archives: Government security
Supermicro: We told you the tampering claims were false
Computer manufacturer Supermicro is still trying to lay to rest reports that the Chinese government tempered with its equipment to spy on Western cloud users.
Microsoft calls for laws on facial recognition, issues principles
Profits are nice, but “We don’t believe that the world will be best served by a commercial race to the bottom,” says President Brad Smith.
DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid
It enacted a worst-case, “black start” scenario: swaths of the country’s grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.
France: Let’s make the internet safer! US: ‘How about NO?!’
Don’t cry for us, Argentina: Critics saw potential for government meddling without court order, among other issues.
Voting machine manual tells officials to reuse weak passwords
The manual turns good advice on its head, telling officials to use, reuse and recycle weak passwords.
CIA’s secret online network unravelled with a Google search
The US government is reeling from a catastrophic, years-long intelligence failure that compromised its internet-based covert communications.
US indicts alleged Chinese spies for hacking aerospace companies
The DOJ described five years of stealing turbofan engine designs that relied on insiders, state-sponsored hackers, phishing and malware.
Mirai author fined $8.6million, gets 6 months house arrest
An Alaskan court has handed one of the Mirai authors a huge fine.
Gov worker visits 9k porn sites without protection, spreads infection
A now very “ex”-government employee provides a teachable moment.