Security News

Trump Team 'Dispels' EU Doubts on Data Protection Deal
2017-10-18 16:45

US President Donald Trump's administration has "dispelled" doubts over whether it will stand by a hard-won personal data protection accord with Europe struck during Barack Obama's presidency, the...

Trump Issues Threat Sharing Directive to Intelligence Community
2017-10-11 13:21

President Trump issued a memorandum on Oct. 5 requiring the intelligence community to establish an inter-agency information sharing network. Agency heads are required to submit a plan within 270...

US Reviewing Better Tech Identifiers After Hacks: Trump Aide
2017-10-03 17:02

US officials are studying ways to end the use of social security numbers for identification following a series of data breaches compromising the data for millions of Americans, a Trump...

Trump Blocks Chinese Acquisition of U.S. Semiconductor Firm
2017-09-15 12:56

President Donald Trump on Wednesday blocked attempts by a Chinese state-owned firm to acquire an American semiconductor manufacturer on national security concerns, drawing a rebuke from Beijing. read more

CEOs Resign from Trump’s Cybersecurity Commission (Threatpost)
2017-08-28 20:50

Eight members of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council resigned last week, citing insufficient attention to the growing threats to the cybersecurity by the Trump Administration.

Judge limits DOJ’s search of anti-Trump website data (Help Net Security)
2017-08-25 19:05

After the US Department of Justice demanded from DreamHost data that could identify visitors of anti-Trump website Disruptj20.org and the web host refused to comply with such an unreasonably broad...

After 7 Months in Office, How's Trump Doing on Cybersecurity? (InfoRiskToday)
2017-08-25 08:18

Analyzing Donald Trump's cybersecurity policy seven months into his administration highlights the latest edition of the ISMG Security Report. Also, Cybersecurity Coordinator Rob Joyce disses...

DOJ wants to know who visited anti-Trump website (Help Net Security)
2017-08-16 17:42

The US Department of Justice wants DreamHost to hand over IP addresses of some 1.3 million visitors to disruptj20.org, a website that helped organize political protests during President Trump’s...

Trump's Cybersecurity Executive Order Will Be Judged by the Action It Inspires (InfoRiskToday)
2017-07-27 22:03

The actors behind WannaCry couldn't have timed their actions more ironically.