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Google+ wakes up to what the rest of us already knew
2018-10-10 11:17

Google's closing down the platform nobody uses and might face a class-action lawsuit over a G+ spawned breach it took 7 months to report.

US may have by far the world's biggest military budget but it's not showing in security
2018-10-10 00:30

GAO report finds more holes than a Swiss cheese, and very little hope for improvement If you were worried about the state of US military security systems you might not want to read the latest...

Don't make us pay compo for employee data breach, Morrisons begs UK court
2018-10-09 13:02

Beaks ponder first-of-a-kind data protection case Lawyers for supermarket chain Morrisons today urged the UK Court of Appeal to overturn an earlier judgment that made the company partly liable for...

The US National Cyber Strategy
2018-10-09 11:01

Last month the White House released the "National Cyber Strategy of the United States of America. I generally don't have much to say about these sorts of documents. They're filled with broad...

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Super Micro Trojan: US and UK Back Apple and Amazon Denials
2018-10-08 12:48

Government Agencies Have 'No Reason to Doubt' Supply Chain Tampering RefutationU.S. and U.K. government agencies have said they have "no reason to doubt" strong denials issued by Amazon and Apple...

UK, US Security Agencies Deny Investigating Chinese Spy Chips
2018-10-08 05:24

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the U.K. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) have denied investigating the presence of Chinese spy chips in Supermicro servers, as claimed by a...

Report: Chinese Spy Chip Backdoored US Defense, Tech Firms
2018-10-05 09:18

If Accurate, Bloomberg Report Would Mark a New Era of Mass Hardware CompromiseDid the Chinese government pull off one of the most secretive hardware hacks of all time? That's what information...

US government charges seven Russians with Fancy bear hacks
2018-10-05 01:30

Largely pointless, since they're never going to stand trial In what's turning into International Cyber-Attribution Week, a US Federal grand jury has indicted seven Russian military intelligence...

China allegedly infiltrated US companies through implanted hardware backdoors
2018-10-04 15:57

Many US companies, including Amazon and Apple, have been the victims of a clever supply chain attack that resulted in compromised hardware (servers) being installed at some of their facilities, an...

China Used Tiny Chips on US Computers to Steal Secrets: Report
2018-10-04 15:37

Tiny chips inserted in US computer equipment manufactured in China were used as part of a vast effort by Beijing to steal US technology secrets, a published report said Thursday. read more