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'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The Reg Feature Chinese tech company employees and government workers are siphoning off user data and selling it online - and even...
U.S. President Joe Biden has issued an Executive Order that prohibits the mass transfer of citizens' personal data to countries of concern. The Executive Order also "provides safeguards around...
U.S. President Joe Biden on Monday signed an executive order that restricts the use of commercial spyware by federal government agencies. The order said the spyware ecosystem "Poses significant counterintelligence or security risks to the United States Government or significant risks of improper use by a foreign government or foreign person."
US president Joe Biden on Monday issued an Executive Order on Prohibition on Use by the United States Government of Commercial Spyware that Poses Risks to National Security - a title that is not quite as simple it seems. The Order and explanatory statement point out that commercial spyware has been used by authoritarian regimes to target activists and journalists, has been deployed without proper authority in democracies, and poses a security risk to the US and other nations.
In this Help Net Security video, Kurtis Minder, CEO of GroupSense, discusses President Biden's National Cybersecurity Strategy, designed to take the nation's cybersecurity posture to the next level. While the strategy promises to make it much easier for government agencies to launch offensive cyberattacks on adversaries, it betrays why the U.S. has fallen behind modern cyber threats.
WhatsApp uses the Signal encryption protocol to provide encryption for its messages. WhatsApp does not protect metadata the way that Signal does.
The administration's efforts were unveiled at a Wednesday meeting attended by US deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technology Anne Neuberger, Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel, national cyber director Chris Inglis, and representatives from telcos and other tech companies including Google, AT&T, Cisco, Intel, Samsung and more. The IoT industry still lacks a global harmonized way for measuring the security quality of connected products, which means consumers may not have the visibility they need into whether their IoT devices protect their data.
US president Biden and South Korea's new president Yoon Suk Yeol have pledged further co-operation in many technologies, including joint efforts to combat North Korea. North Korea stands accused of running many offensive operations online.
Cyberattacks took down Finnish government websites on Friday while Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed Finland's members of parliament. Denial-of-service attacks hit Finland's ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs' websites around noon local time.
Facebook has removed a deepfake video of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spreading across the social network and the Internet, asking Ukrainian troops lay down their arms and surrender. "Earlier today, our teams identified and removed a deepfake video claiming to show President Zelensky issuing a statement he never did," said Nathaniel Gleicher, the head of security policy at Meta, Facebook's parent company.