Uber’s PR Crisis Deepens With Revelations it Paid Hackers to Destroy Evidence of Breach...
A data breach in 2016 affected approximately 50 million riders and 7 million drivers on the Uber platform.
The breach exposed the names, phone numbers...
Legislators Urge Equifax to Extend ID Theft Services to Three Years
Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee signed a letter to Equifax on Tuesday requesting that the company extend by at least...
Tor Project Launches Tor Messenger, Anonymous Chat App
The Tor Project, a non-profit which runs the Tor network, a system of routes and servers designed to disguise Internet activity, has launched the...
CSRA Gets $52 Million to Strengthen Cyber Infrastructure for DHS
Virginia-Based CSRA Inc., a provider of information technology services to U.S. government clients in national security, civil government, and health care and public health,...
Bank of England to Carry Out Test to Gauge Finance Sector’s Resilience to Cyber...
The Bank of England said it will carry out a test on Friday to gauge the financial sector's ability to withstand a major cyberattack....
United States, Finland Conduct Bilateral Cyber Defense Exercise
Finland and the United States will conduct the bilateral cyber defense exercise Cyber Lightning in Finland on 11-15 September 2017.
The goal of the exercise...
IoT Security 101: Researchers Demonstrate How to Launch a Citywide Bricking Attack
How to launch a citywide bricking attack? Too easy, thanks to the proliferation of IoT devices that have blanketed the landscape in recent times....
Federal Regulators Issue First-Ever Guidelines for Improving Automobile Cybersecurity
The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) on Monday released proposed guidance for improving motor vehicle cybersecurity, aimed at protecting...
U.S. DOT Proposes a Requirement That New Vehicles ‘Talk’ to Each Other
Citing an enormous potential to reduce crashes on U.S. roadways, the U.S. Department of Transportation issued a proposed rule Tuesday that would advance the...
Rule 41 Senate Block Fails: US Government Surveillance Powers Now Expanded
A final attempt by a bipartisan group of senators Wednesday to allow a vote to block a new rule that grants federal agents armed...