Rear Admiral Grace M. Hopper salutes crew members as she comes aboard the US S Constitution in Boston’s Charlestown section for her retirement ceremony 8/14. Hopper, the U. S. Navy’s oldest commissioned officer on active duty, retired after serving over 40 years in a Navy uniform. The NSA recently released a lecture she gave on base in 1982. (Getty Images) WATCH: NSA releases lecture from computer science pioneer Rear Adm. Grace Hopper The U.S. government has to figure out what to do with all the data it wants to collect. Younger people’s engrained ability to harness a new wave… Aug 30, 2024 By Greg Otto
Check Point Technologies’ headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Courtesy of Check Point Technologies) Check Point acquires threat intel company Cyberint The deal is the third acquisition the Israeli cybersecurity firm has made in the past year. Aug 27, 2024 By Greg Otto
Security guards hold back the crowd during a distance running event to promote the 2008 Olympic Games in China in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. The Chinese government worked with the Ministry of State Security, the Ministry of Public Security and the armed forces to ensure security ahead of the Summer Olympics. (Photo by China Photos/Getty Images) Former Verizon employee pleads guilty to conspiring to aid Chinese spy agency Ping Li gave the Chinese government information about the country’s hacking of a major U.S. company and cyber training materials, the DOJ said. Aug 23, 2024 By Tim Starks
A picture taken on September 21, 2016 shows a statue donated by Google during its inauguration in Montelimar, as Google decided to launch a new version of the android operating system. (JEFF PACHOUD/AFP via Getty Images) Google to wind down app store bug bounty The tech giant says it is receiving fewer vulnerabilities and that security improvements have resulted in a more secure Android ecosystem. Aug 20, 2024 By AJ Vicens
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris greet U.S. President Joe Biden as First Lady Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff look on at the end of the first day of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center on August 19, 2024 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Democrats give cyber short shrift in party platform It’s similar to the Republican platform in that way but a departure from the 2020 Democratic policy document. Aug 20, 2024 By Tim Starks
LAS VEGAS, NV – JANUARY 02: Exterior view of Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada sign is seen on January 02, 2006 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by BG032/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images) Las Vegas didn’t fold during CrowdStrike outage Sin City’s chief information officer says incident response playbooks and muscle memory limited the incident’s impact locally. Aug 16, 2024 By Christian Vasquez
Safe Mode A deep dive with Tim Starks on the Biden administration’s cybersecurity initiatives Tim Starks, Senior Reporter for CyberScoop Aug 8, 2024 By CyberScoop Staff
Google Chrome’s logo is seen at Google’s annual developer conference, Google I/O, at Moscone Center in San Francisco on June 28, 2012 in California. AFP PHOTO / Kimihiro Hoshino (Photo credit should read KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/GettyImages) Researchers find decades-old vulnerability in major web browsers The flaw, called ‘0.0.0.0 day,’ has to do with how browsers handle network requests. Aug 8, 2024 By Greg Otto
Delta Airlines passengers line up for agent assistance at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on July 22. (Photo by Jessica McGowan/Getty Images) CrowdStrike points finger back at Delta after airline threatened to sue over outages Delta will have to account for its own shortcomings if it follows through on a threat based on a “misleading narrative,” CrowdStrike said. Aug 5, 2024 By Tim Starks
U.S. President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House on July 24. (Photo by Evan Vucci-Pool/Getty Images) Biden’s cybersecurity legacy: ‘a big shift’ to private sector responsibility Over the course of his term, Joe Biden has presided over an ambitious agenda on regulation and more, to both praise and criticism. Jul 29, 2024 By Tim Starks