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German police allowed to use its own “federal Trojan”

The German Interior Ministry has approved for investigative use a spying Trojan developed by the German Federal Criminal Police (a so-called “federal Trojan”). In …

Apple
Apple to US govt: Withdraw demand for iPhone unlocking, we all need to talk first

The battle between Apple and the US Justice Department continues, as the company still refuses to help the feds access the contents of a PIN-locked iPhone used by gunman Syed …

Connect
DHS releases guidelines for CISA-sanctioned cybersecurity information sharing

The US Department of Homeland Security has published guidelines on how the private sector and federal entities can share cyber threat indicators (CTIs) with the US federal …

Government-mandated crypto backdoors are pointless, says report

If you needed another confirmation that government-mandated backdoors in US encryption products would only serve to damage US companies’ competitiveness without actually …

money
Government sector: largest revenue contributor for the global cyber security market

The cyber security market is predicted to reach close to USD 161 billion in revenue by 2020, according to Technavio. “During the forecast period, the market share of North …

IRS
101,000 US taxpayers affected by automated attack on IRS app

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has revealed more details about an attack it suffered last month, mounted by unknown individuals with the aim to file fraudulent tax …

Department of Justice
Info on 20,000 FBI and 9,000 DHS employees leaked following alleged DoJ hack

On Sunday, Motherboard reported that a hacker contacted them and claimed to have hacked into a US Department of Justice (DoJ) computer, exfiltrated 200GB of files, as well as …

Europe
EU-US Privacy Shield: New framework for transatlantic data flows

The European Commission and the United States have agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows: the EU-US Privacy Shield. The College of Commissioners approved the …

NASA
Hackers claim to have hacked NASA, hijacked one of its drones

AnonSec hackers claim that they have breached a number of NASA’s systems, and they have published a data trove containing video recordings made by the agency’s …

Binary
UK activists dumps 2.5 GB of data stolen from US police union

Last Thursday, UK-based researcher and activist Thomas White has made available for download 2.5 GB of data stolen in a recent hack of the computer systems of the Fraternal …

pound
How much could a cyber attack cost the HMRC?

HMRC could face compensation claims of over £13 billion if it were to lose people’s personal and financial data as a result of a cyber attack, according to a new study by …

Cloud
Security to become primary reason government agencies move to the cloud

Public cloud options now offer the scalability, computing power, storage and security to better enable digital government platforms and meet rising expectations for …

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