On April 13th, 2021 with 23 comments
April showers bring hours of patches as Microsoft delivers its Patch Tuesday fun-fest consisting of over a hundred CVEs, including four Exchange Server...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Microsoft,
United States,
Index
On March 18th, 2021 with 66 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from IEEE Spectrum, written by Stacey Higginbotham: The IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 has given the nation an...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Devices,
Index
On January 11th, 2021 with 22 comments
The Associated Press reports:
New Zealand's central bank said Sunday that one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Index
On January 5th, 2021 with 72 comments
Top national security agencies in a rare joint statement Tuesday confirmed that Russia was likely responsible for a massive hack of U.S. government departments...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Privacy,
United States,
Index
On January 3rd, 2021 with 71 comments
CNN reports that some critics are now questioning whether America's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is equipped to protect the...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
United States,
Index
On December 22nd, 2020 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Dozens of email accounts at the U.S. Treasury Department were compromised by the powerful hackers...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Privacy,
Index
On December 12th, 2020 with 11 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Facebook said it has linked an advanced hacking group widely believed to be sponsored by the government...
Topics: IT →
Facebook,
Government,
IT,
Index
On November 18th, 2020 with 99 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Researchers have uncovered a massive hacking campaign that's using sophisticated tools and techniques to...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Businesses,
China,
Government,
Index
On October 25th, 2020 with 110 comments
After the U.S. unveiled charges against six members of the Sandworm unit in Russia's military intelligence agency, Wired re-visited "a secret experiment in...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Index
On October 21st, 2020 with 96 comments
At least 2,000 law enforcement agencies have tools to get into encrypted smartphones, according to new research, and they are using them far more than...
Topics: IT →
Encryption,
Government,
Technology,
Index
On October 11th, 2020 with 37 comments
The Washington Post reports:
In recent weeks, the U.S. military has mounted an operation to temporarily disrupt what is described as the world's largest...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Botnet,
Government,
The Military,
Index
On September 2nd, 2020 with 90 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: On April 28, 2016, an IT tech staffer for the Democratic National Committee named Yared Tamene made a sickening...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
United States,
Index
On July 11th, 2020 with 28 comments
The U.S. Secret Service announced the creation of the Cyber Fraud Task Force (CFTF) after the merger of its Financial Crimes Task Forces (FCTFs) and Electronic...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Crime,
Government,
The Internet,
United States,
Index
On July 2nd, 2020 with 80 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VICE News: [The Open Technology Fund is a U.S. government-funded nonprofit, which is part of the umbrella group...
Topics: IT →
Encryption,
Censorship,
Government,
United States,
Technology,
Index
On June 22nd, 2020 with 147 comments
New submitter bmimatt shares a report from Krebs On Security: Hundreds of thousands of potentially sensitive files from police departments across the United...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Privacy,
United States,
Index
On June 11th, 2020 with 23 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bleeping Computer: The City of Knoxville, Tennessee, was forced to shut down its entire computer network following a...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
United States,
Index
On May 18th, 2020 with 92 comments
stikves shares a report from Engadget: Last December, a Saudi Arabian cadet training with the U.S. military opened fire at Naval Air Station Pensacola,...
Topics: IT →
Encryption,
Government,
Privacy,
Security,
United States,
Apple,
Index
On May 16th, 2020 with 50 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader bbsguru shares a story from the alternative newsweekly the Arkansas Times. "A computer programmer applying for unemployment on...
Topics: IT →
Bug,
Government,
Privacy,
Programming,
Index
On May 7th, 2020 with 15 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The messages began arriving in World Health Organization employees' inboxes in early April, seemingly...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Privacy,
Technology,
Index
On April 12th, 2020 with 250 comments
The Bay Area Newsgroup just interviewed the author of "Abolish Silicon Valley: How to liberate technology from capitalism".
Q: How do you fix this broken...
Topics: IT →
Books,
Government,
Open Source,
IT,
Index
On April 9th, 2020 with 82 comments
Signal is warning that an anti-encryption bill circulating in Congress could force the private messaging app to pull out of the U.S. market. PC Magazine...
Topics: IT →
Encryption,
Communications,
Government,
Privacy,
United States,
Index
On April 4th, 2020 with 78 comments
Last week long-time tech pundit Robert Cringely predicted "the death of IT" in 2020 due to the widespread adoption of SD-WAN and SASE.
Now he's predicting...
Topics: IT →
IBM,
Government,
IT,
Index
On March 22nd, 2020 with 36 comments
"Red faces in Red Square, again," writes a Forbes cybersecurity correspondent:
Last July, I reported on the hacking of SyTech, an FSB contractor working on...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Networking,
Index
On February 22nd, 2020 with 24 comments
Long-time Slashdot reader Garabito writes: The Department of Homeland Security has revealed that an unnamed U.S. natural gas compression facility was forced to...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Index
On January 31st, 2020 with 93 comments
Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is working on a bill that would reduce legal protections for apps and websites, potentially jeopardizing online encryption. The Verge...
Topics: IT →
Encryption,
Government,
Privacy,
United States,
Technology,
Index
On January 29th, 2020 with 29 comments
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The U.S. Department of the Interior has confirmed it has grounded its fleet of non-emergency drones amid...
Topics: IT →
Security,
China,
Government,
United States,
Index
On January 14th, 2020 with 42 comments
Microsoft on Tuesday patched an extraordinarily serious security vulnerability in a core cryptographic component present in all versions of Windows. The...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Microsoft,
Operating Systems,
Software,
United States,
Windows,
Technology,
Index
On December 13th, 2019 with 30 comments
New submitter tubajock writes: According to NOLA.com, New Orleans City Hall workers were told by a PA system broadcast to immediately unplug all computer...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Software,
Hardware,
Technology,
Index
On December 3rd, 2019 with 22 comments
The FBI warned in a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) Monday that it considers mobile applications developed in Russia, including the...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
Privacy,
Software,
Technology,
Index
On November 28th, 2019 with 88 comments
Just one-third of the 2020 U.S. presidential candidates are using an email security feature that could prevent a similar attack that hobbled the Democrats...
Topics: IT →
Security,
Government,
United States,
Politics,
Index
"You can have my Unix system when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers." -- Cal Keegan
