DomeWatch Leak Exposed Personal Data of Capitol Hill Applicants

Unsecured House Democrats' resume bank DomeWatch exposed 7,000 records, including PII and "top secret" clearance status, raising identity theft fears...

Senator Chides FBI for Weak Advice on Mobile Security

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI briefed Capitol Hill staff recently on hardening the security of their mobile devices, after a contacts list stolen from the personal phone of the White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was reportedly used to fuel a series of text messages and...

UFO Whistleblower, Meet a Conspiracy-Loving Congress

Fresh claims from a former US intelligence officer about an “intact” alien craft may get traction on Capitol Hill, where some lawmakers want to believe...

Post-Riot, the Capitol Hill IT Staff Faces a Security Mess

Wednesday's insurrection could have exposed congressional data and devices in ways that have yet to be appreciated...

After Whistle-Blower, House Democrats Chart a Course for Trump's Impeachment

An eventful week on Capitol Hill is only the beginning of a very long road...

Here’s What to Ask the Former Equifax CEO

Richard Smith -- who resigned as chief executive of big-three credit bureau Equifax this week in the wake of a data breach that exposed 143 million Social Security numbers -- is slated to testify in front of no fewer than four committees on Capitol Hill next week. If I were a lawmaker, here are...

D.C.'s Complicated View of Cyberwar, Regulation, Liability

MINNEAPOLIS – Lawmakers and politicians trying to equate cyberwar with a kinetic battle are misguided in putting the two on equal footing, said former National Security Agency general counsel Stewart A. Baker today in his keynote at the Cyber Security Summit. “Cyberweapons are not like nuclear...

Sprint Disables Carrier IQ Software On Its Devices

Sprint has decided to stop using Carrier IQ’s diagnostic software in light of the ongoing controversy about user privacy, according to reports. A Sprint spokesperson told the Website MobileBurn that the carrier has “weighed customer concerns and…disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic...

Apple, Google to Testify at Smart Phone Tracking Hearing

After a bruising series of revelations about location tracking features on mobile devices running their operating systems, Apple and Google will send executives to Capitol Hill to talk to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law about cell phone privacy. Guy L. “Bud”...

"Real" Osama bin Laden Death Photos? Yeah, They're Fake, Too.

You’ve heard about the tidal wave of spam e-mail and scammy Web links that followed the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Special Forces on Sunday. But what about the latest round of e-mails offering death photos of the slain terrorist leader? Well, turns out they’re fake, also. Security firm...