FTC Issues Tips on VPN Apps
On February 22, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) published a blog post that provides tips on how consumers can […]
cybersecurity
When Obscurity Is Not a Defense
Many organizations facing a data-security incident struggle to understand how or why their organization was targeted in an attack. Most […]
Data breach GDPR case study
The business has grown substantially over a number of years, and now has a number of different business units providing […]
Deep Fakes: A Looming Crisis for National Security, Democracy and Privacy?
Manipulating images, sound, or video to convincingly mislead the public could take so-called “fake news” to a new level. Recent […]
U.S. Customs Wants to Use Your Face As a Boarding Pass
By 2022, the agency plans to use biometrics to identify 97 percent of travelers flying out of the country. Getting […]
UK’s councils unprepared for cyber-attacks, report says
More than 25% of UK councils have had their computer systems breached in the past five years, campaigners say. A […]
Siemens and partners sign joint charter on cybersecurity
At the Munich Security Conference 2018, Siemens and eight partners from industry signed the first joint charter for greater cybersecurity. […]
NIST publishes report on metadata schema for attributes
This NIST Internal Report contains a metadata schema for attributes that may be asserted about an individual during an online […]
US Attorney General Sessions Announces New Cybersecurity Task Force
Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered the creation of the Justice Department’s Cyber-Digital Task Force, which will canvass the many […]
Web Hosting Services Could Leave Small Businesses at Risk of Phishing
The Federal Trade Commission today released a staff report that examines 11 web-hosting services that market themselves to small businesses […]
Lawsuits threaten infosec research — just when we need it most
Security researchers and reporters have something in common: both hold the powerful accountable. But doing so has painted a target […]
The Argument Against a Mobile Device Backdoor for Government
The ‘responsible encryption’ demanded by law enforcement and some politicians will not prevent criminals ‘going dark’; will weaken cyber security […]