“Few environments provide a more target-rich environment for cyber criminals than the estimated 17,000 information security experts gathered in Las Vegas this week for the annual Black Hat security conference. Cyber threats at the show can be abundant. ‘We see it all,’ Black Hat General Manage...
Genetic testing companies maintain databases of genetic information on millions of people who have used their services to obtain information on their family history and health. These companies released guidelines this week regarding the protection of this sensitive data, including the commitment to ...
A new “self-revocable encryption” app has been designed to temporarily remove access to specified content on a device. The app is not yet commercially available, but could eventually allow journalists, dissidents, and similar individuals carrying sensitive data a method of carrying the data over...
A group of Australian researchers published a paper on how swipes, taps, key strokes, and handwriting on touch screen devices can be used to identify individuals. “While regular tracking tracks virtual identities such as online profiles, touch-based tracking has the potential to track and identify...
A website bug was responsible for exposing millions of email addresses belonging to customers of LifeLock, an identity protection service acquired by Symantec in 2016 for $2.3 billion. Source: Identity Theft Protection Service Accidentally Exposes Identities – Nextgov Via OODA Loop...
The Pentagon is distributing a “Do Not Buy” list of software that fails to meet national security standards. The list was started 6 months ago but while circulation among the military and its contractors started last week in response to “specific issues.” The defense undersecretary for acqui...
The DoD is now accepting proposals for its 10-year, $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract, to be awarded to a single provider. The controversial contract will make a commercial company responsible for important workloads and classified military secrets accessible ...
The National Security Agency is “deleting all call detail records (CDRs) acquired since 2015” to meet the requirements of the 2015 USA Freedom Act. This act ended the secret collection of call detail records, replacing the practice with a process in which the NSA requests specified records from ...