The latest coverage of the Department of Homeland Security and cyber threats around the globe.
WikiLeaks claimed vindication following the release Thursday of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential race.
Facebook “unintentionally” harvested data from the email accounts of up to 1.5 million of its users, the social network said Wednesday.
Russian lawmakers approved Thursday a bill that would expand government control over the internet and whose opponents fear heralds a new era of widespread censorship.
As President Trump’s shakeup at Homeland Security continues to rattle Capitol Hill, the administration says there’s a clear logic to the moves — find people who can break through the bureaucracy that so far has thwarted much of the president’s agenda.
YouTube blocked users from commenting live during Tuesday’s congressional hearing about hate speech and white nationalism after the broadcast’s chat room became flooded with bigoted and anti-Semitic reactions.
Yujing Zhang, a Chinese woman criminally charged with recently breaching President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, had a device in her nearby hotel room designed to detect hidden recording equipment, a federal prosecutor said Monday.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley warned President Trump Monday against firing additional leaders within the Department of Homeland Security — following the departures of outgoing DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, Secret Service Director Randolph D. “Tex” Alles, and rumors that Lee Francis Cissna, the director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, might be next.
Social media giants like Facebook and Google came under increasing pressure in Europe on Monday when countries proposed stricter rules to force them to block extreme material such as terrorist propaganda and child porn.
British police stationed armed officers outside the Ecuadorian Embassy in London on Friday after tweets from WikiLeaks quoted what it said were high-level sources saying that Julian Assange could be kicked out of the building within “hours to days.”
Australian lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill that punishes internet companies for failing to promptly purge their platforms of “abhorrent violent material,” placing new responsibilities on social media providers as a direct result of last month’s mosque shootings in nearby Christchurch, New Zealand.
The House Judiciary Committee announced Wednesday that members will hold an open hearing next week on hate crimes and white nationalism, focusing in particular on the part social media platforms play in their propagation.
As Israel prepares to hold a national election next week, experts say it is vulnerable to the kind of foreign hacks and cyber campaigns that have disrupted the political process in other countries.
A woman carrying two Chinese passports and a device containing computer malware lied to Secret Service agents and briefly gained admission to President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club over the weekend during his Florida visit, federal prosecutors allege in court documents.
Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno on Tuesday accused WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange of repeatedly breaking the rules governing his asylum status and stay inside the country’s embassy in London.
Bipartisan legislation introduced in both houses of Congress Thursday would terminate the National Security Agency’s once-secretive authority to collect U.S. telephone records.
Twitter is tackling how to let leaders like President Trump break the platform’s rules without repercussion, a report said Thursday.
Passage of bipartisan cybersecurity legislation proposed Wednesday would permit the Senate Sergeant at Arms to help safeguard the personal devices and accounts of certain lawmakers and staff.
Chelsea Manning is asking a federal appeals court to reverse a recent contempt ruling that resulted in the convicted WikiLeaks source’s reimprisonment, according to filings unsealed Friday.
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson denied ties Friday to President Trump’s election campaign on the heels of his predecessor, Julian Assange, defying requests for related material from the House Judiciary Committee.
Trump son-in-law and top White House adviser Jared Kushner uses WhatsApp to conduct official government business, and his wife Ivanka Trump still does official work on her personal email account, running afoul of the law, House Democrats said Thursday.
Facebook had stored millions of user passwords in plain text for years, the social media company confirmed on Thursday after a security researcher posted about the issue online.
Individuals on the terrorist watchlist were approved to work at ports across the country because FBI agents did not understand the vetting process, the Justice Department inspector general said Thursday.
Is China’s “Great Firewall,” which effectively blocks thousands of sensitive websites here, a political or an economic weapon?
A Palestinian man who was part of a 2015 riot, clashing with Israeli soldiers, was charged Wednesday with fraudulently procuring a visa and trying to enter the U.S. on false pretenses.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen offered a dire assessment of the nation’s ability to withstand a state-sponsored cyberattack.
Republican Rep. Devin Nunes accused Twitter in a lawsuit Monday of censoring him and other conservatives during the 2018 elections, as the social media giant admitted it goofed in blocking the content of a conservative commentator last week.
Russia will use high-tech disinformation campaigns combined with “limited” military actions as the cornerstones of a grand plan to divide the West and re-establish itself as a global force — a broad geopolitical strategy that analysts and insiders fear has caught the U.S. and its allies flat-footed.
Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon Democrat, announced plans Thursday to pursue legislation allowing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to establish mandatory cybersecurity requirements for elections.
At its ripe old age of 30 and with half the globe using it, the World Wide Web is facing growing pains with issues like hate speech, privacy concerns and state-sponsored hacking, its creator says.
The Trump administration will not ask for additional funding for its $3.3 billion plan to tear down and rebuild the FBI headquarters in downtown Washington, a Justice Department official said Monday.
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning has been sent to jail for refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.
The National Security Agency is preparing to potentially abandon a controversial surveillance program exposed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, the agency’s director indicated.
WikiLeaks source Chelsea Manning said Thursday that she anticipates being jailed as a result of refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia.
Chinese tech giant Huawei is launching a U.S. court challenge to a law that labels the company a security risk and would limit its access to the American market for telecom equipment.
American intelligence and military cyberwarriors have begun conducting counter-cyberattacks against Chinese intelligence and military targets, according to a U.S. official.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out a new “privacy-focused” vision for social networking.
James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, denied Tuesday that he lied to Congress when he falsely testified during the Obama administration that the government does “not wittingly” collect the telephone records of millions of Americans.
The National Security Agency has discontinued a surveillance program in the last few months that collected data on US domestic phone records, according to a Republican congressional official.
The National Security Agency faced pressure Tuesday to officially pull the plug on its system for analyzing domestic telephone records in light of reports of the program being quietly abandoned.
Chinese tech company Huawei on Tuesday opened a cybersecurity lab in Brussels, the heart of the European Union, as it tries to win over government leaders and fight back U.S. allegations that its equipment poses a national security risk.
Neuroscientist Moran Cerf, Ph.D, says brain implants that he is working on with Silicon Valley may be ready within five years.
Hacking tools used by law enforcement agencies to extract data stored on smartphones are being resold online, making the products available to the general public and resulting in a warning to customers, a report revealed Wednesday.
President Trump personally authorized a U.S. military operation that resulted in Russian internet trolls being unable to get online during the 2018 midterm elections, a report said Tuesday.
President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer is planning to tell a House committee that Trump knew ahead of time that WikiLeaks had emails damaging to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and that Trump is a “racist,” a “conman” and a “cheat.”
A federal judge in Washington has agreed to move quickly on a lawsuit filed by a former Alabama woman who joined the Islamic State and wants to return to the United States
The Pentagon conducted a campaign that resulted in Russian trolls being unable to use the internet while Americans voted in the 2018 midterm elections, a report said Tuesday.
Twitter is under fire in Russia following a ruling Thursday from Moscow’s internet watchdog, Roskomnadzor.
President Trump on Thursday called for American telecommunication companies to improve the 5G technology in the U.S.
Hackers linked to the North Korean government have surprised researchers by shifting their attention toward targets in Russia, an Israel cybersecurity company reported Tuesday.
A hacking group has targeted European democratic institutions including think tanks and nonprofit groups ahead of highly anticipated EU parliamentary elections in May, Microsoft said.
Victims targeted by Russian state-sponsored hackers typically have less than 20 minutes to prevent an initial intrusion from becoming a full-blown breach, a leading U.S. cybersecurity firm warned Tuesday.
British lawmakers issued a scathing report Monday that calls for tougher rules on Facebook to keep it from acting like “digital gangsters” and intentionally violating data privacy and competition laws.
Something appears fishy with WayOfTheBern, a prominent Reddit page dedicated to advancing the prospects of Vermont Sen. Bernard Sanders, according to experts who track political social media.
Two computer hackers were charged with sending false shooting and bomb threats to hundreds of schools and other institutions in the U.S. and Britain, federal prosecutors said Tuesday.
