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Sounding the Alarm on Emergency Alert System Flaws

August 12, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, comcast, cybir, david mcguire, defcon, Department of Homeland Security, digital alert systems, emergency alert system, ken pyle, Latest Warnings, monroe electronics, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 15:26:58 +0000

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is urging states and localities to beef up security around proprietary devices that connect to the Emergency Alert System — a national public warning system used to deliver important emergency information, such as severe weather and AMBER alerts. The DHS warning came in advance of a workshop to be held this weekend at the DEFCON security conference in Las Vegas, where a security researcher is slated to demonstrate multiple weaknesses in the nationwide alert system.

MalwareBytes Security

Report: Organizations remain vulnerable to increasing insider threats

December 5, 2019 admin awareness, Carnegie Mellon University, cert insider threat center, cybersecurity insiders, defense counterintelligence and security agency, Department of Homeland Security, espionage, fraud, gurucul, insider threats, malicious insider, mitigate insider threats, national counterintelligence and security center, national insider threat awareness month, national insider threat task force, ncsc, nittf, office of the under secretary of defense, Paige A. Thompson, scope of insider threat, sei, software engineering institute, types of insiders, william evanina, workplace violence

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 16:00:00 +0000

The risk and challenges insider threats pose to organizations are ever present, even before tech as we know it existed. The age of digitization only made it higher and far-reaching. How has insider threats evolved over time? Where are we now in terms of mitigating insider threat risk? Are businesses really doing something about it? We answer such questions—and more—in this post.

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Independent Krebs

FEC: Campaigns Can Use Discounted Cybersecurity Services

July 11, 2019 admin A Little Sunshine, Adav Noti, Campaign Legal Center, Dan Petalas, Defending Digital Campaigns, Department of Homeland Security, Eric Geller, FBI Director Christopher Wray, Federal Election Commission, Garvey Schubert Barer, Microsoft Corp., Politico, Sen. Ron Wyden, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, The New York Times

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 20:41:21 +0000

The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) said today companies can offer discounted cybersecurity services to political campaigns without running afoul of existing campaign finance laws, provided they already do the same for other non-political entities. The decision comes amid much jostling on Capitol Hill over election security at the state level, and fresh warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about impending cyber attacks targeting candidates in the lead up to the 2020 election.

Kaspersky Security

Hack all the things: Looks like aircraft are next in line

November 14, 2017 admin aircraft, aircrafts, Boeing, Department of Homeland Security, hacking, news, Threats

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2017 14:35:32 +0000

A representative of the US Department of Homeland Security claims that he hacked into a Boeing 757.

Independent Krebs

New Bill Seeks Basic IoT Security Standards

August 1, 2017 admin Aaron Swartz, Berklett Cybersecurity Project, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, CDT, Center for Democracy & Technology, CFAA abuse, computer fraud and abuse act, Cory Gardner, Department of Homeland Security, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, DMCA, Harvard University, IoT Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017, IoT devices, Mark Warner, Mozilla, Other, Ron Wyden, Steve Daines

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:32:47 +0000

Lawmakers in the U.S. Senate today introduced a bill that would set baseline security standards for the government’s purchase and use of a broad range of Internet-connected devices, including computers, routers and security cameras. The legislation, which also seeks to remedy some widely-perceived shortcomings in existing cybercrime law, was developed in direct response to a series of massive cyber attacks in 2016 that were fueled for the most part by poorly-secured “Internet of Things” (IoT) devices.