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Approximately 4 million US federal employees, both current and former, will start receiving a breach notification alerting them that their personal information has potentially …

Despite clear benefits of cloud services – greater collaboration, agility, and cost savings – federal agencies are slow to migrate to the cloud due to security concerns. As a …

The US Senate voted for the passing of the USA Freedom Act on Tuesday, and President Obama signed it into law later the same day. So, how will this impact the surveillance …

A small, perhaps temporary, but important victory has been won by privacy advocates today, as the US Senate has allowed three sections of the USA PATRIOT Act to expire.Among …

As digital rights lawyer and special counsel to the Electronic Frontier Foundation Marcia Hofmann correctly noted in her keynote at Hack in the Box Amsterdam 2015 on Thursday, …

Cybercriminals were able to successfully steal tax forms full of personal information of more than 100,000 taxpayers through IRS’ Get Transcript application. This data …

In a job posting published last week, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) – the UK version of US’ National Security Agency – openly announced …

The highly debated USA FREEDOM Act, a bill whose purpose is “to rein in the dragnet collection of data by the NSA and other government agencies, increase transparency of …

Three women from Houston, Texas, stand accused of engaging in an identity theft scheme in which one of them, a contract employee of the Department of State Passport Agency, …

Hedge funds are increasingly targeted by cyber extortionists, John Carlin, US Assistant Attorney General for National Security, has warned the audience at the SALT hedge fund …

An indictment is charging a former employee of the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with a total of four felony offenses in …

You might or might not know that some countries – especially some European ones – have (or are working on) strong data protection laws.What most people don’t …