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The announcement of Alex Stamos leaving Facebook has brought a lot of skeletons out of graves. Facebook is once again being associated with the Russian operatives’ influence in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. As the news of the resignation...
House Lawmakers Ted Lieu and Ted Yoho have proposed ‘Hack the State Department’ bill which would set up a bug bounty program to boost cybersecurity preparedness in the department. The program seeks the department to establish a Vulnerability Disclosure...
PRWEB: With the Bi-Partisan Budget Act of 2018 (BBA) passed in February 2018, lifting caps on spending and paving the way for significant increases in discretionary spending, Federal IT Contractors working with Defense Agencies can expect to feel the...
Pankit Desai is one of founders of Sequretek, a startup that is making waves in the cybersecurity market with its plethora of products and services. An information technology veteran, Desai has previously worked with a number of top-notch organizations,...
Technology improves compliance but also increases costs, points out a new survey by Moss Adams LLP. The survey indicates that 55 percent of CXOs feel that introduction of technology to improve the compliance function has increased the budget while...
The National Health Information Sharing and Analysis Center recently partnered with threat intelligence platform Anomali to raise the security standards for data sharing processes in the healthcare industry. NH-ISAC is a healthcare global community for collaborating and spreading best...
The government of Australia has launched Joint Cyber Security Centre (JCSC) facility in Sydney which aims to promote cybersecurity systems across government, business, and academia. The facility is a part of the government’s $47 million JCSC program that bridges...
Travel metasearch engine and fare aggregator website Orbitz became the victim of a grim cyber heist on Tuesday, March 21, 2018. Orbitz, a subsidiary of Expedia Inc., fears that hackers may have accessed crucial payment cards data of nearly...
The Indian Army has issued a warning to users of social messenger application, WhatsApp, alleging that Chinese hackers are targeting them to extract personal data. The Army took to the microblogging site, Twitter to urge users to use WhatsApp...
Governor of Michigan Rick Snyder signed legislation on March 19, 2018 exempting open-records disclosure of cybersecurity-related information. “Michigan is a leader in addressing cybersecurity and I’m proud that this legislation takes an additional step toward addressing the safety and...