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UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm
2020-05-20 16:45

Worried about identifiable personal data from your coronavirus contact-tracing app making it into a British government database? Fear not! The Ministry of Defence is sanitising it all first. Public fears are already running high after official COVID-19 contact tracing app maker NHSX's CEO admitted to Parliament that data harvested by the app would be retained after the pandemic ends for "Research".

UK's Ministry of Defence: We'll harvest and anonymise private COVID-19 apps' tracing data by handing it to 'behavioural science' arm
2020-05-20 16:45

Worried about identifiable personal data from your coronavirus contact-tracing app making it into a British government database? Fear not! The Ministry of Defence is sanitising it all first. Public fears are already running high after official COVID-19 contact tracing app maker NHSX's CEO admitted to Parliament that data harvested by the app would be retained after the pandemic ends for "Research".

Ministry of Defence lowers supplier infosec standards thanks to COVID-19 outbreak
2020-04-20 08:15

Security standards for defence contractors have been lowered thanks to the coronavirus outbreak, Britain's Ministry of Defence has told its suppliers. In an Industry Security Notice published to an obscure corner of GOV.UK, the ministry said it is suspending the need for its suppliers to have the Cyber Essentials Plus security certification.

Singapore Ministry of Defence Launches New Bug Bounty Program
2019-10-01 10:44

Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) is inviting 400 white-hat hackers to find vulnerabilities in its systems, as part of a three-week program hosted on hacker-powered pentesting and bug...

Singapore Ministry of Defence Announces Bug Bounty Program
2017-12-13 16:20

Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) has invited roughly 300 white hat hackers from around the world to take part in a two-week bug bounty program targeting eight of its Internet-facing...