Cybersecurity
Pompeo confirmed as CIA head, Hurd to HPSCI
The Senate voted largely along party lines to confirm Rep. Mike Pompeo as head of the CIA. Rep. Will Hurd, a former CIA agent and cyber expert will replace Pompeo on the House Intelligence Committee.
Cybersecurity
Cyberattacks Block Lloyds Customers from Online Banking
Financial Services // United Kingdom
Cybersecurity
Update Every Apple Device You Have As Soon as Possible
Eliminate some newly discovered vulnerabilities.
Cybersecurity
The Encryption Wars Will Return One Way or Another
House Homeland aide predicts another encryption standoff, urges tackling the issue before there’s a crisis.
Artificial Intelligence
The Demon Voice That Can Control Your Smartphone
Researchers have created creepy sounds unintelligible to humans but still capable of talking to phones’ digital assistants.
Cybersecurity
Cyber Breach at Hospital; McDonald's User Info Exposed; and a Gmail Scam
Just another week in ThreatWatch, our regularly updated index of noteworthy data breaches.
Cybersecurity
Legacy systems, hygiene top Air Force 2017 cyber list
The Air Force will prioritize making legacy and mission systems cyber secure and instilling a culture of cyber security in the workforce in 2017, says CISO Pete Kim.
Ideas
Avoiding Failure of Imagination in Cyber Conflicts
It's not enough to prepare for known cyber threats.
Cybersecurity
Hackers Downloaded US Government Climate Data and Stored it on European Servers as Trump Was Being Inaugurated
Many of the programmers who showed up at UCLA for the event had day jobs as IT consultants or data managers at startups.
Cybersecurity
Trump Administration Highlights Offensive Cyber in First Moments
The new commander-in-chief noted offensive military cyber capabilities and using offensive cyber to disrupt ISIL
Cybersecurity
DHS tackles backlog of unauthorized IT systems
A report by the agency's inspector general says DHS has made progress in cybersecurity training, dual-factor authentication and certifying systems, but more 50 of its unclassified systems still lack authorities to operate.
Cybersecurity
CIO Council Plans Https Default in 2017
About 70 percent of federal web domains now use https encryption.
Cybersecurity
The Army has been hacked -- and is happy about it
The first “Hack the Army” bug bounty challenge wrapped up in December, and the results are in with 179 participants finding 118 actionable bugs in public-facing Army websites.
Cybersecurity
The Knowns and Unknowns of Trump’s Cyber Plan
Questions surround how the new president will tackle cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
Hospital Breach Affects Thousands of Patients
Healthcare and Public Health // Virginia, USA
Cybersecurity
High-Tech Features That Make Passports Secure
The flimsy pages and patriotic designs betray just how many security measures are hidden inside.
Cybersecurity
Transparency Group Sues for FBI Records on Russian Hacking
The Electronic Privacy Information Center cites an “urgent public interest” in the records being released.
Cybersecurity
Administration finalizes cyber response plan
The Obama administration has approved a long-awaited and debated update to the National Cyber Incident Response Plan that outlines roles and responsibilities in response to a significant cyber incident in the U.S.
Cybersecurity