TransUnion Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of 4.4 Million U.S. Consumers in Salesforce Attack
TransUnion, one of the three major U.S. credit reporting agencies, has confirmed a data breach impacting over 4.4 million people in the United States....
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DHS Announces $40 Million Funding for Quantitative Analysis Center: Seeks proposals
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced Tuesday a $40M funding opportunity for an institution to lead a new...
FedRAMP Accelerated Process: GSA Releases Pre-audit Template to Enable Vendors Achieve FedRAMP Authorization
The General Services Administration (GSA) has released the FedRAMP Readiness Assessment Report (RAR) Template, a pre-audit enabling cloud providers to demonstrate their readiness to...
OMB’s Final Policy Requires Feds to Publicly Release 20 Percent of Code as Open Source
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued a final mandate on Monday requiring government agencies to release most of their code as open...
Oracle’s Micros POS Division Suffers Data Breach
Oracle Corp. has fallen victim to a computer hack that affected hundreds of systems and was allegedly conducted by a Russian organized cybercrime group....
Spy Agencies Want Tech to Enable Translation From All Languages to English
The Intelligence Advance Research Projects Activity (IARPA) says it is planning to hold a conference where it will release a new solicitation to support...
Global Computer System Outage Grounds Delta Air Lines Flights
Thousands of Delta passengers around the world were stranded Monday following a power outage at its Atlanta headquarters which caused a global computer failure...
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TransUnion Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of 4.4 Million U.S. Consumers in Salesforce Attack
TransUnion, one of the three major U.S. credit reporting agencies, has confirmed a data breach impacting over 4.4 million people in the United States....
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EU Begins Enforcement of Landmark AI Law, Imposing Tough Restrictions and Fines
The European Union has officially begun enforcing its groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) law, marking a major step in global AI regulation. As of Sunday,...
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Bipartisan Bill Would Bolster Security Defenses Against Open-Source Software Vulnerabilities
Sens. Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, have proposed a bill to help protect federal and critical infrastructure systems by strengthening the security...
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Department of Homeland Security Launches Incident Command System
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced today the Next-Generation Incident Command System (NICS,) an information sharing tool...
Hacked Bitcoin Exchange to Distribute 36% Loss Across Users
Bitfinex, a popular Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange was hacked last week, losing about $70 million worth of customer’s bitcoin.
The loss caused the price of...
Walmart Takes on Amazon With $3.3 Billion Jet.com Acquisition
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced Monday that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Walmart to acquire e-commerce startup Jet.com, Inc. for approximately $3...
U.S. Marshals Set to Auction $1.6 Million Worth of Bitcoin
The U.S. government announced Monday its plan to auction 2,719.32669068 bitcoins worth a little over $1.6 million in one block. Bidder registration opens today...
Autonomous Bug-Hunting Bots Hold the Key to Better Cybersecurity – DoD
The Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) held a challenge August 4, which pitted machines against machines in a quest to...
White House Requires Agencies to Improve ‘Information Technology Commodity Management Practices’
The White House issued a memorandum Thursday requiring agencies to take new steps to improve their “Information Technology commodity management practices.”
Annually, the Federal Government...