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The US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Wednesday ordered US federal agencies outside the defense and intelligence communities to develop a working vulnerability disclosure policy. "An open redirect - which can be used to give off-site malicious content the appearance of legitimacy - may not be on par with a fire, yet serious vulnerabilities in internet systems cause real-world, negative impacts every day," he said.
Following weeks of heated protests in American cities - and criticism of law enforcement's use of force, surveillance, and drone aircraft in the skies above - the US government has belatedly asked the public what it thinks. The US Department of Homeland Security wants your comments on the use of drones by police and other first responders by July 9.
The American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Department of Homeland Security over its failure to cough up details about its use of facial recognition at airports. The ACLU says that the lawsuit challenges the secrecy that shrouds federal law enforcement's use of face recognition surveillance technology.
Securonix, a leader in Next-Gen SIEM, announced that multiple Securonix Security Operations & Analytics Platform products have been approved for Network Security Management of the Department of Homeland Security's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program's Approved Products List. Securonix Next-Gen SIEM and Security Data Lake products were approved for Network Security Management, which aims to provide tools for incident response and monitoring, ongoing assessment monitoring, and auditing data collection.
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Anyone still at their posts, please stop these address takeovers... please, helloo? Anyone there? America's Homeland Security has urged US government departments and federal agencies to shore up...
Colorado, whose election systems are ranked among the nation's safest, held a cyber-security and disaster exercise Thursday for dozens of state, county and federal elections officials to reinforce...
Attacks on SAP, Oracle platforms incoming Hackers are increasingly looking to target enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to disrupt and steal data from large companies.…
The US Senate confirmed White House deputy chief of staff Kirstjen Nielsen as Secretary of Homeland Security on Tuesday, putting her in charge of implementing the Trump administration's...
New rules give the DHS permission to collect "social media handles, aliases, associated identifiable information, and search results" as part of people's immigration file. The Federal Register has...