NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden granted permanent residency in RussiaEdward Snowden has been living in Russia since June 2013.October 22, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
US blames Iran for spoofed Proud Boys emails threatening Democrat votersUS claims Iran is behind a wave of emails purporting to be from right-wing Proud Boys group that threatened registered Democrat voters with repercussions if they didn't vote for Trump.October 21, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
Political campaign emails contain dark patterns to manipulate donors, votersPrinceton researchers analyzed 100,000 different campaign emails from more than 3,000 political candidates.October 17, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
911 services down in multiple US statesMost services are now restored. No technical reason for the outage given.September 28, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
Three Trump officials have now hinted at a TikTok ban this monthUS Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien, and Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows have suggested that a TikTok ban is on its way.July 19, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
Congress wants to know what commercial spyware other countries are usingIntelligence funding bill for 2021 to mandate DNI to submit report to Congress about surveillance vendors and the countries that use spyware.June 11, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
DOD's third attempt to implement IPv6 isn't going wellFirst two attempts failed citing security concerns. This time, the DOD is woefully behind on its own implementation plan.June 1, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
White House says security incidents at US federal agencies went down in 2019US federal agencies reported 28,581 cyber-security incidents in 2019, down by 8% from 31,107 in 2018.June 1, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
Trump bans acquisition of foreign power grid equipment, citing hacking threatsWhite House says foreign-made equipment "augments the ability of foreign adversaries to create and exploit vulnerabilities" in the US power grid.May 1, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US
DHS CISA to provide DoH and DoT servers for government useUntil official servers are available, government agencies told to disable DoH (DNS-over-HTTPS) and DoT (DNS-over-TLS) on their networks.April 30, 2020 by Catalin Cimpanu in Government: US