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A ZIP file containing information supposedly stolen in a hack of the Qatar National Bank has been published on whistleblower site Cryptome on Tuesday. The contents of the …

Sensitive personal information of over 93 million Mexican voters has been found, unprotected and accessible to anyone who knew where to look. Last Friday, researcher Chris …

For any organisations processing personal data the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is important news. Agreed upon just days ago, after years of negotiations, the …

SecurityScorecard released its 2016 Government Cybersecurity Report, a comprehensive analysis that exposes alarming cybersecurity vulnerabilities across 600 local, state, and …

Microsoft has filed a new lawsuit against the US government, asking the court to permit them to alert their users when their online accounts and the data in them has been …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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, …