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The Federal Communications Commission Friday proposed fines against the nation's four largest wireless carriers for selling real-time mobile phone location data without taking reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to that information. In Friday statement, Paj said: "The FCC has long had clear rules on the books requiring all phone companies to protect their customers' personal information. And since 2007, these companies have been on notice that they must take reasonable precautions to safeguard this data and that the FCC will take strong enforcement action if they don't. Today, we do just that. This FCC will not tolerate phone companies putting Americans' privacy at risk."
The new feature, DKIM key management, is currently in beta and users have been encouraged to share feedback to help ProtonMail developers improve it. The signature is linked to the user's domain name and it's created with a private key that has a corresponding public key added to the domain registrar's DNS. If DKIM is used, the email recipient's server looks up the public key and uses it to verify the signature in the message's header to ensure that the email is legitimate.
A British judge on Thursday paused Julian Assange's extradition hearing following four days of intense legal wrangling over Washington's request for the WikiLeaks founder to stand trial there on espionage charges. The judge refused a request Thursday by Assange's lawyers to let him sit with his defence team, and not in the secure glass-walled dock area of the courtroom, when the hearing resumes.
British utility biz Southern Water was the victim of a phishing attack on Wednesday, resulting in a hurried shutdown of some of the company's systems. An industry insider told The Register that Southern Water's networks, including the system responsible for Supervision, Control, and Data Acquisition were hit.
Free and open certificate authority Let's Encrypt on Thursday issued its billionth certificate, four and a half years after issuing the first certificate. It provides free digital certificates and also handles the certificate management process for site owners.
To that end, CISA has worked with the National Security Council, various federal agencies, industry stakeholders and organizations like the ICS Village to develop a set of core initiatives for 2020. Four, CISA will have a focus on developing detection and incident-response training blueprints.
This special edition of the ISMG Security Report focuses exclusively on the RSA 2020 conference. Featured are comments from former NSA Director Keith Alexander on "collective defense," plus a...
SAN FRANCISCO - Advanced persistent threat groups are hitting Apple devices with malware that has been reverse engineered and redeployed for malicious acts. Despite these threats, Wardle said that when it comes to security, Apple's moving in a "Positive" direction, adding more malware mitigation or security features into their operating system.
Intel patched over 230 vulnerabilities in its products last year, but less than a dozen impacted its processors, according to the company's 2019 Product Security Report. Intel said it learned of 236 vulnerabilities in 2019, including 144 discovered internally by its employees.
Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition startup that's gobbled up more than three billion of our photos by scraping social media sites and any other publicly accessible nook and cranny it can find, has lost its entire list of clients to hackers - including details about its many law enforcement clients. Clearview, which has sold access to its gargantuan faceprint database to hundreds of law enforcement agencies, first came to the public's attention in January when the New York Times ran a front-page article suggesting that the "Secretive company [] might end privacy as we know it."