Security News

China's Huawei Sues US Over Federal Ban on Its Products
2019-03-07 05:41

Tech giant Huawei on Thursday opened a legal front in its counter-offensive against US warnings that it could aid Chinese intelligence services, filing suit to overturn a US law that bars federal...

FBI boss: Never mind Russia and social media, China ransacks US biz for blueprints, secrets at 'surprisingly' huge scale
2019-03-05 20:42

'Espionage and criminal investigations ... almost all of which lead back to Beijing' RSA While Russian hackers, Kremlin-backed or otherwise, grab the headlines, China remains the biggest...

Adi Shamir visa snub: US govt slammed after the S in RSA blocked from his own RSA conf
2019-03-05 19:41

'If someone like me can't get in to give a keynote, perhaps it's time we rethink where we organize our events' RSA Adi Shamir, the S in the renowned RSA encryption system, didn't take his usual...

When the bits hit the FAN: US military accused of knackering Russian trolls, news org's IT gear amid mid-term elections
2019-03-01 21:05

Despite fried RAID and deleted hard drives, Federal News Agency calls US Cyber Command attack a failure A Russian new service is claiming that US attacks on it and an organisation accused of...

US House and Senate debate new data privacy law
2019-02-28 13:54

A steady stream of hair-raising revelations about the treatment of users' data by Facebook, et al. is pushing Congress to do *something.*

US pushed Russian troll factory offline during US midterm elections
2019-02-28 13:00

The US blocked internet access to Russian trolls who, they say, were trying to spread FUD.

Can Everybody Read the US Terrorist Watch List?
2019-02-28 12:22

After years of claiming that the Terrorist Screening Database is kept secret within the government, we have now learned that the DHS shares it "with more than 1,400 private entities, including...

Web hacker 'Alfabeto Virtual' thrown in the clink for 3 months by US judge who wanted to 'send a message'
2019-02-27 23:39

By contrast, Russian hack-treason trial ends with 22-year sentence and accusations of foul play A US judge this week sentenced website hacker Billy Anderson to three months behind bars, refusing...

US Lawmakers Kick Off Debate Over Online Privacy
2019-02-27 15:45

US lawmakers opened a debate Tuesday over privacy legislation in the first step by Congress toward regulation addressing a series of troublesome data protection abuses by tech firms. read more

Before Elections, US Cut Russian Trolls' Internet Access
2019-02-27 11:18

Mindful of Escalation, American Spies Cautiously Spar with RussiaThe U.S. military curtailed the internet access of an infamous Russian trolling operation around the mid-term elections in November...