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The Release
Documentaries about an expert convicted of leaking classified information

Stephen Kim was a top level state department intelligence analyst. He went to prison under the Espionage Act. The Surrender The Surrender intimately documents Stephen Kim’s …

Healthcare
Developing a mobile health app? Check which federal laws apply

The Federal Trade Commission has created a new web-based tool for mobile health app developers, which is designed to help the developers understand what federal laws and …

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US passport and visa database open to intrusion?

The Consular Consolidated Database (CCD), which contains over 290 million passport-related records, 184 million visa records, and 25 million records on US citizens living …

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Has Reddit been served with a National Security Letter?

Reddit has published its 2015 Transparency Report, and there is one thing missing from it: the entire section about national security requests. The same report for 2014 …

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US govt has unlocked San Bernardino gunman’s iPhone

The US Department of Justice has found a way to get into the iPhone 5C owned by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters. With a short status report filed with the …

US Department of Justice
7 Iranians indicted for cyber attacks on US banks and a dam

The US Justice Department unsealed on Thursday an indictment charging seven Iranian computer specialists for conducting a coordinated campaign of distributed denial of service …

Former US Embassy employee imprisoned for sextortion

Former US State Department employee Michael C. Ford has been sentenced to four years, and nine months in prison for perpetrating a widespread, international e-mail phishing, …

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Most infosec pros consider government-mandated encryption backdoors a bad idea

Apple and the FBI have been engaged in a legal battle over the federal government’s right to require built-in smartphone encryption software that could aid law enforcement …

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Hack the Pentagon: Hackers asked to help secure public-facing systems

The US Department of Defense (DoD) has invited hackers participate in “Hack the Pentagon”, a program aimed at finding vulnerabilities in some of the …

iPhone
Apple says DoJ’s request for iPhone unlocking is unconstitutional

Apple has filed a motion to vacate the earlier court order that would force them to help the FBI access the contents of the iPhone of the San Bernardino gunman by creating a …

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Start getting ready for Europe’s new data protection regulation today

You are in charge of your organization’s security. Depending on how large and well resourced your business IT function is, your card might read IT director, CIO, CTO, or …

NSA
NSA spied on world leaders, UN, EU officials

A set of highly classified documents recently published by WikiLeaks show how the NSA spied on a number of high ranking officials of the UN, UNHCR, WTO, NATO, the EU and …

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