Senators have discovered that the State Department is breaking the law by not using multi-factor authentication in its emails.
Tag Archives: Government security
California bill regulates IoT for first time in US
California looks set to regulate IoT devices, becoming the first US state to do so and beating the Federal Government to the post.
North Korean programmer charged for Sony, WannaCry attacks and more
Park Jin Hyok is allegedly with Lazarus Group, a hacking team connected to attacks on a wide array of industries and public utilities.
‘Only paper ballots by 2020!’ call experts after election tampering
The National Academy of Sciences says the US election system uses insecure technology and is fighting off attempts to destabilize it.
Social Security numbers exposed on US government transparency site
The US government exposed dozens of people’s’ personal details, including social security numbers, due to an online mishap on a public transparency portal.
Serious Fraud Office trialling AI for data-heavy cases
A new tool draws links between people under investigation: emails, who was cc’ed, and those quieter messages where nobody at all was cc’ed.
Governments demand companies allow access to data, or else
A decades-old alliance of national intelligence partners promised to get at encrypted data last week, whether tech companies helped them or not.
Proposed US law would require President to act against overseas hackers
A US senator has announced a bill that would force the President to punish overseas hackers found targeting the US, or explain why he hadn’t.
NSA leaker Reality Winner gets 63 months in jail
Reality Leigh Winner, the NSA contractor who leaked sensitive information to the Intercept last year, was sentenced to 63 months in prison last week along with three years of supervised release.
DNC ‘spearphishing attack’ was actually a test
A fake login page turned out to be a test phishing attack from the Michigan Democratic Party, which hadn’t told the DNC or the ISP about it.