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7 Iranians indicted for cyber attacks on US banks and a dam
The US Justice Department unsealed on Thursday an indictment charging seven Iranian computer specialists for conducting a coordinated campaign of distributed denial of service …
Former US Embassy employee imprisoned for sextortion
Former US State Department employee Michael C. Ford has been sentenced to four years, and nine months in prison for perpetrating a widespread, international e-mail phishing, …
Most infosec pros consider government-mandated encryption backdoors a bad idea
Apple and the FBI have been engaged in a legal battle over the federal government’s right to require built-in smartphone encryption software that could aid law enforcement …
Hack the Pentagon: Hackers asked to help secure public-facing systems
The US Department of Defense (DoD) has invited hackers participate in “Hack the Pentagon”, a program aimed at finding vulnerabilities in some of the …
Apple says DoJ’s request for iPhone unlocking is unconstitutional
Apple has filed a motion to vacate the earlier court order that would force them to help the FBI access the contents of the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman by creating a …
Start getting ready for Europe’s new data protection regulation today
You are in charge of your organization’s security. Depending on how large and well resourced your business IT function is, your card might read IT director, CIO, CTO, or …
NSA spied on world leaders, UN, EU officials
A set of highly classified documents recently published by WikiLeaks show how the NSA spied on a number of high ranking officials of the UN, UNHCR, WTO, NATO, the EU and …
German police allowed to use its own “federal Trojan”
The German Interior Ministry has approved for investigative use a spying Trojan developed by the German Federal Criminal Police (a so-called “federal Trojan”). In …
Apple to US govt: Withdraw demand for iPhone unlocking, we all need to talk first
The battle between Apple and the US Justice Department continues, as the company still refuses to help the feds access the contents of a PIN-locked iPhone used by gunman Syed …
DHS releases guidelines for CISA-sanctioned cybersecurity information sharing
The US Department of Homeland Security has published guidelines on how the private sector and federal entities can share cyber threat indicators (CTIs) with the US federal …
Government-mandated crypto backdoors are pointless, says report
If you needed another confirmation that government-mandated backdoors in US encryption products would only serve to damage US companies’ competitiveness without actually …
Government sector: largest revenue contributor for the global cyber security market
The cyber security market is predicted to reach close to USD 161 billion in revenue by 2020, according to Technavio. “During the forecast period, the market share of North …
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