The dead drops were very James Bond: once, the data mule taped the SD card to the underside of a desk in a hotel.
Tag Archives: Government security
DDoS attack on US Health agency part of coordinated campaign
It coincided with a disinformation campaign carried out via SMS, email and social media claiming that national quarantine was imminent.
Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones
Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.
EARN IT Act threatens end-to-end encryption
The bill, which would undercut Section 230 protections for online publishing, presents itself as a way to stop online child abuse.
Homeland Security sued over secretive use of face recognition
As of June 2019, CBP had processed more than 20 million travelers using facial recognition, civil rights group ACLU says.
Trial for accused CIA leaker ends in hung jury
The US is expected to press for a retrial in the high-stakes trial of Joshua Schulte, suspected of raiding the CIA’s cyber arsenal.
Ex-Inspector General indicted for stealing data on 250k govt colleagues
Crime doesn’t pay, even if you have the audacity to try to sell your employer its own, free software and personal data on your own colleagues.
Now you need a notarized document to get a .gov domain
The US government is tightening its rules around the registration of government web domains to stop fraudsters impersonating government sites.
Ethical hackers swarm Pentagon websites
Hackers are crawling all over the US Department of Defense’s websites – and DoD officials are quite happy about the whole thing.
Facebook purges hundreds of fake accounts from state actors, marketers
It removed 5 networks engaged in foreign or government interference in Egypt, India, Russia, Iran, and Myanmar/Vietnam. Some targeted the US.