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A Chinese immigrant is fingerprinted during her “biometrics” appointment to receive a green card at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

Advocates urge Amazon to drop controversial DHS surveillance program

HART will become the one-stop shop for profiles that combine data from other DHS projects.

May 24, 2022 By Tonya Riley

Ukrainian police officers patrol a street following a shelling in Ukraine’s second-biggest city of Kharkiv on March 7, 2022. (Photo by SERGEY BOBOK/AFP via Getty Images)

Cloudflare not fully backing out of Russia, company says, as tech firms are forced to weigh in

Ukraine's effort to force tech firms out of Russia is turning up mixed results so far.

Mar 7, 2022

Amazon’s Sidewalk, a neighborhood device network, is ‘uncharted territory’ for data privacy, watchdogs say

Researchers say the technology is secure, though it touches on lingering anxieties.

Jun 9, 2021 By Tonya Riley

WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 23: (L-R) Microsoft President Brad Smith, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, and SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna talk with each other before the start of a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill on February 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. The hearing focused on the 2020 cyberattack that resulted in a series of data breaches within several agencies and departments in the U.S. federal government. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

Senate hearing on SolarWinds hack lays bare US shortcomings, remaining mysteries

Fundamental questions, like how the SolarWinds hackers got into its systems from the start, still aren't answered.

Feb 23, 2021 By Tim Starks

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Financial system not keeping up with cyberthreats, new report says

Government and industry must coordinate better to protect the system, according to a report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Nov 18, 2020 By Tim Starks

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Sneaky recon on roster of AWS users is possible, Unit 42 says

More than 20 APIs associated with 16 Amazon Web Services products can be abused to give up basic information about users and their roles, according to the…

Nov 17, 2020 By Joe Warminsky

Twilio hack — someone had manipulated the code in a software product that Twilio customers use to route calls and other communications. (Flickr/ Web Summit)

Twilio breach spotlights struggle to keep corporate software kits out of the wrong hands

The damage could have been worse if the attack had been targeted.

Jul 24, 2020 By Sean Lyngaas

Exclusive: PR software firm exposes data on nearly 500k contacts

The company removed the bucket from the open internet after being contacted by CyberScoop.

Dec 9, 2019 By Greg Otto

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Sens. Warren, Wyden want to know if Amazon shares some blame for the Capital One breach

Capital One had shifted to AWS to modernize its business.

Oct 24, 2019 By Jeff Stone

Former U.S. Army contractor sentenced to prison for destroying IT system

A contractor wiped an entire SharePoint system off a company's AWS instance to exact revenge for his job being terminated.

Sep 27, 2019 By Shannon Vavra