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US Contractor Arrested in Leak of NSA Top-Secret File (InfoRiskToday)
2017-06-06 13:33

Document Describes Suspected Election Meddling by Russia's Intelligence AgencyA 25-year-old federal contractor has been arrested and charged with leaking a top-secret NSA document that describes...

Kremlin 'Resolutely' Denies Russia Hacked US Vote (Security Week)
2017-06-06 12:18

The Kremlin on Tuesday strongly denied a leaked US report that Russian military intelligence hackers tried to infiltrate into US voting systems before last year's presidential election. read more

Russia Tried to Hack US Voting Systems for Months: Report (Security Week)
2017-06-05 22:20

A top secret National Security Agency document shows that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year's presidential election, The...

US visa applicants will have to provide social media handles (Help Net Security)
2017-06-02 16:16

US consular officials have been provided with a new questionnaire that they can give selected visa applicants to complete. Among other things, Form DS-5535 requires applicants to share all social...

Putin: “Patriotic” Russian hackers may have interfered in US election (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-01 21:06

Comparing hackers to artists, Putin says they may have been inspired by patriotism.

Half of US firms don’t have cybersecurity insurance (Help Net Security)
2017-06-01 12:30

A full 50 percent of US firms do not have cybersecurity insurance, despite the fact that 61 percent of US firms expect the volume of cyber breaches to increase in the next year. These findings...

What Romeo and Juliet Can Teach Us About security Market Confusion (Security Week)
2017-06-01 12:25

Recently, I was reminded of the well known quote from William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet".  What exactly was I doing that reminded me of...

Shakespeare and Security: What Romeo and Juliet Teach Us About Security Market Confusion (Security Week)
2017-06-01 12:25

Recently, I was reminded of the well known quote from William Shakespeare’s play “Romeo and Juliet”: "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet".  What exactly was I doing that reminded me of...

US Says No Laptop Ban on Board Flights From Europe for Now (Security Week)
2017-05-31 16:06

US aviation security officials stepped back Tuesday from imposing a ban on carry-on computers on flights coming from Europe, which had been proposed to guard against possible bomb-laden...

Balancing act: Ensuring compliance with GDPR and US regulations (Help Net Security)
2017-05-31 14:00

The impending GDPR, which will go into effect in a little less than a year from now, is going to have a significant impact on enterprise cybersecurity and data governance policies and practices...