Credit to Author: Bill Cozens| Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:04:02 +0000
In this post, we break down 5 times hackers used security vulnerabilities in 2021 to attack governments and businesses.
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Credit to Author: Matthew Finnegan| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 09:01:00 -0700
The California State Assembly is considering new rules that would offer workers greater protection from the use of digital monitoring tools by employers.
The “Workplace Technology Accountability Act” (AB 1651), introduced by Assemblymember Ash Kalra, would create a way to protect workers against the use of technologies that can negatively affect privacy and wellbeing.
The bill would “establish much needed, yet reasonable, limitations on how employers use data-driven technology at work,” Kalra told the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee on Wednesday. “The time is now to address the increasing use of unregulated data-driven technologies in the workplace and give workers — and the state — the necessary tools to mitigate any insidious impacts caused by them.”
Credit to Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols| Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 03:00:00 -0800
People die because of cyber wars, even if no bullets are ever fired. Instead, they die in emergency rooms that no longer have power, from broken medical communication networks, and from riots. All of this has happened before. It will happen again. And now, with Russia poised to invade Ukraine and Russian cyberattacks already in motion, we can only hope and pray that what promises to be the first major European war since World War II doesn’t spark the next World War.
If it does, I fear the proximate cause won’t be Russian T-90 main battle tanks trying to smash their way into Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv. It will be the Russian GRU Sandworm hacking group launching a cyberattack that perhaps wrecks the European Union power grid; or knocks out major US internet sites such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft; or stops 4G and 5G cellular services in their tracks.
Credit to Author: Prashant Tilekar| Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2021 12:39:07 +0000
CetaRAT was seen for the first time in the Operation SideCopy APT. Now it is continuously expanding its…
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Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800
The Federal Reserve is investigating the potential of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) as the backbone for a new, secure real-time payments and settlements system.
The move toward a form of government-backed digital currency is being driven by Fintech firms and a banking industry already piloting or planning to pilot cash-backed digital tokens, according to Lael Brainard, a member of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.
“Today, it can take a few days to get access to your funds. A real-time retail payments infrastructure would ensure the funds are available immediately – to pay utility bills or split the rent with roommates, or for small business owners to pay their suppliers,” said Brainard, who serves as chair of the committees overseeing Financial Stability and Payments, Clearing and Settlements.
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:51:00 -0800
A coding flaw and lack of sufficient testing of an application to record votes in Monday’s Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus will likely hurt the advancement and uptake of online voting.
While there have been hundreds of tests of mobile and online voting platforms in recent years – mostly in small municipal or corporate shareholder and university student elections – online voting technology has yet to be tested for widespread use by the general public in a national election.
“This is one of the cases where we narrowly dodged a bullet,” said Jeremy Epstein, vice chair of the Association for Computing Machinery’s US Technology Policy Committee (USTPC). “The Iowa Democratic Party had planned to allow voters to vote in the caucus using their phones; if this sort of meltdown had happened with actual votes, it would have been an actual disaster. In this case, it’s just delayed results and egg on the face of the people who built and purchased the technology.”
Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2020 03:00:00 -0800
About 1.2 million Seattle area voters will be able to use their smartphone, laptop or a computer at their local library to vote in a current election this year.
This will be the first-time online voting is available to all eligible registered voters of a district, according to a foundation behind the initiative.
The King Conservation District in Washington State is the third region in the U.S. to partner with the non-profit Tusk Philanthropies on a national effort to expand mobile voting, and Washington is the fifth state to pilot mobile voting in general. The King Conservation District is a state environmental agency that includes Seattle and 33 other cities, but it is separate from the King County Elections agency and operates under a different budget.
Credit to Author: Adam Kujawa| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 20:30:10 +0000
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| Beyond the usual arguments on this subject, we wanted to ask the question: Are there any security risks we need to be worried about if the United States were to switch to ‘Healthcare for All’ policies? Categories: Tags: adam kujawaAMCAAmerican Medical Collection AgencyBlue Cross Blue ShieldbreachesCMScybercrimeDepartment of Health and Human ServicesDominion NationalElectronic Frontier FoundationGAOGovernment Accountability Officehealthcarehealthcare.govHeatlhcareHHSinsuranceinteroperabilityMalwarebytesmalwarebytes labsMedicare for allOnline Privacy Act of 2019OS IncPrema Blue CrossSolara Medical SuppliesSpectrum Health Lakelandthird-party servicesWolverine Solutions Group |
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