WASHINGTON DC - The US Department of Justice has charged a Chinese businessman with hacking the computer systems of Boeing and other US defense contractors, amid growing tensions over computer espionage. Su Bin, a Chinese national and the owner of a Chinese aviation technology company, conspired with two individuals in China to steal information related
SOUTHFIELD - Secure-24 has promoted Scott McIsaac and Sean Donaldson to co-chief technology officers and also will be leading the new interdisciplinary Technology Advisory Council. Both Donaldson and McIsaac have been with Secure-24 since 2004. Previously, Donaldson held many different roles within the company including network and Linux manager, director of infrastructure and chief architect.
WASHINGTON DC - A US federal privacy watchdog deemed that a National Security Agency program that snoops on foreign citizens on foreign soil was "valuable and effective," claiming it helps protect national security and produces useful foreign intelligence. The 191-page report, disclosed Tuesday night by the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, was in sharp
WASHINGTON DC - Use of common Web privacy tools or even mere curiosity about them could get you added to a National Security Agency watch list, according to a new report. The NSA surveillance program called X-Keyscore, first revealed last summer in documents leaked by Edward Snowden, has been found to contain selection rules that
ANN ARBOR - Merit Network, Inc. announced today that members of the West Michigan Cyber Security Consortium and the newly formed Michigan Cyber Civilian Corps will participate in a cybersecurity incident response exercise using Alphaville and the Michigan Cyber Range. The day-long exercise, to take place July 23 on the campus of Davenport University in
BIRMINGHAM - According to one of the founders of ProtonMail, a secure email startup, PayPal had suspended their account. A PayPal representative reportedly questioned the legality of an encrypted email solution. ProtonMail is hosted in Switzerland specifically to provide assurances to users that there is no legal jurisdiction for the US to interfere with it,
BIRMINGHAM - Congressman Alan Grayson made waves last week when he sent letters to the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, the Consumer Bankers Association, and the Financial Services Roundtable assailing former head of the NSA, Keith Alexander. In each letter Grayson cited a Bloomberg article that revealed that Alexander?s new consulting firm was commanding
SAN FRANCISCO - A team of anti-surveillance activists from Greenpeace, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Tenth Amendment Center came together to protest the US government's mass surveillance programs on Friday by flying an airship over a National Security Agency data center in Utah. The 135-foot-long thermal airship emblazoned with the words "NSA illegal spying
REDMOND - Microsoft has finally fixed an Exchange Online outage that left affected users without access to email for almost nine hours on Tuesday, prompting many to vent their frustration online as they struggled to get their work done. The company hasn?t said how many customers were impacted, but judging by the volume of complaints
WASHINGTON DC - The US House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a measure late Thursday to disarm two of the National Security Agency's surveillance tactics. The House voted 293-123 in favor of an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act 2015 that would cut off funding for programs engineering security vulnerabilities in US-made tech products,