Security News

Up up and Huawei in my beautiful buffoon: Trump sparks panic by tying tech kit ban, charges to China trade negotiations
2019-02-26 22:05

National security, sanctions allegations, pfft, you don't understand the art of the deal Efforts to pressure the White House into banning Huawei hardware from America's networks may have backfired.…

Trump Administration Starts the Ball Rolling with the National Cyber Strategy
2019-02-19 12:11

The topic of cybersecurity won’t go away. Like national security in general, it will remain eternal fodder for future politicians to bat around

Trump Ally Stone Charged With Lying About Hacked Emails
2019-01-26 16:26

President Donald Trump's confidant Roger Stone has been charged with lying about his pursuit of Russian-hacked emails damaging to Hillary Clinton's 2016 election bid. Prosecutors allege that...

Trump Adviser Stone Charged With Lying About WikiLeaks
2019-01-25 18:03

Roger Stone Arrested as Part of Mueller Investigation Into Russian InterferenceRoger Stone Jr., a longtime political adviser to President Donald Trump, has been arrested as part of Robert...

Machine learning trumps AI for security analysts
2019-01-21 06:45

While machine learning is one of the biggest buzzwords in cybersecurity and the tech industry in general, the phrase itself is often overused and mis-applied, leaving many to have their own,...

Dozens of .gov HTTPS certs expire, websites offline, FBI on ice, IT security slows... Yup, it's day 20 of Trump's govt shutdown
2019-01-11 02:02

Hackers may be rubbing their hands with glee The IT impact of the ongoing partial US federal government shutdown has begun to show up in the form of degraded computer security. According to...

Report: Trump Weighs Executive Order Banning Huawei, ZTE
2018-12-27 13:48

Move Would Prohibit All US Use of Chinese Manufacturers' Telecommunications GearPresident Donald Trump is reportedly continuing to weigh an executive order that would ban all U.S. organizations...

Talk in Trump's tweets tells whether tale is true: Code can mostly spot Prez lies from wording
2018-11-21 20:54

And no, it's not simply return true;... Study finds language analysis is fairly good at detecting deception Boffins from the Netherlands and France claim that the word choices and sentence...

US Says China Hacking Increasing Ahead of Trump-Xi Meeting
2018-11-21 15:25

BEIJING (AP) — A U.S. government report ahead of a meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping accuses China of stepping up hacking aimed at stealing American technology as a tariff...

Infosec's Thanksgiving turkey triumvirate: Tesla, Tumblr, Trump (as in Ivanka)... and tons more
2018-11-21 02:07

It's like a turducken of screw-ups Roundup As America prepares for Thursday's Thanksgiving rituals of turkey, football, and awkward conversations with extended family, three organisations are...