FTC Asking DEF CON to Help Catch Robocallers
The FTC is seeking help from hackers at DEF CON to help lure and identify the perpetrators of illegal robocalling scams, whether they are criminal or corporate.
Government
Flaws Found in USCIS RFID Card Production System
The system that’s used to produce RFID-enabled identification cards–including permanent resident IDs–by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service has a number of serious security issues, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General at DHS. Among the issues the OIG found is that nearly all of the workstations in the system […]
U.S. Marshals Auctioning Off Seized Silk Road Bitcoins
If any further evidence was required that up is down and black is white, the United States government is now in the business of selling Bitcoins. At least for one day.
Vodafone released its first transparency report today revealing that a small number of countries have a direct link to its network in order to collect data.
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the changes in the year since the first stories broke regarding Edward Snowden and the NSA and the new OpenSSL vulnerability.​
Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith lays out five areas where the U.S. government needs to make positive strides in reforming surveillance.
DARPA announced that the finale of the Cyber Grand Challenge will be held during DEF CON 2016. More than 30 teams have signed up to build the best automated network defense system.
The past year has seen a tremendous amount of change and turbulence in the security and privacy communities, much of it related to the NSA surveillance revelations. One of the things that has come out of all of the discussions and debates is a greater focus on the importance of encryption, especially encrypting email and […]
Google has released an early version of a Chrome extension that provides end-to-end encryption for data leaving the browser. The extension will allow users to encrypt emails from their webmail accounts.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comments from the public on it’s latest cryptographic hash function, SHA-3.
