Digital bank Monzo has claimed it warned Ticketmaster in April that it may have been the victim of a cyber attack. The online ticketing service said on Wednesday that it did not identify the breach until June 23, when it “took swift action” and informed the relevant authorities. Monzo said it replaced the bank cards…
DetailsThe Homeland Security Department would receive an $86 million boost in cybersecurity money over the Trump administration’s request in a funding bill forwarded by a Senate Appropriations panel Tuesday. The $1.1 billion cybersecurity appropriation includes $406 million for a collection of intrusion detection and prevention systems known as Einstein, according to a fact sheet. It also…
DetailsThe U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have published another report on the US-CERT website detailing a piece of malware allegedly used by the North Korean government. A dozen reports have been published by the DHS and the FBI over the past year on the North Korea-linked threat…
DetailsIt is something few Americans will have likely heard of, but the US Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Advanced Recognition Technology (HART) is catching the eye of privacy advocates – and not in a good way. Announced in 2017, on the face of it HART is just a bigger and better version of the DHS’s…
DetailsApple announced Wednesday that it would block access to a port that law enforcement uses to break into iPhones during criminal investigations, a move that could reignite debate over whether tech companies are doing enough to help authorities probing serious crimes. Apple said the change, which would disable the Lightning port on the bottom of…
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