Congress Clashes Over the Future of America’s Section 702 Spy Program

Competing bills moving through the House of Representatives both reauthorize Section 702 surveillance—but they pave very different paths forward for Americans’ privacy and civil liberties...

US Congress Report Calls for Privacy Reforms After FBI Surveillance 'Abuses'

A new report by an oversight committee in the US House of Representatives says the FBI has routinely violated rules governing FISA’s Section 702 surveillance program and must be reined in...

The QAnon Shaman Isn’t Even the Most Extreme Candidate in His Race for Congress

Jacob Chansley, the January 6 rioter known as the QAnon Shaman, will run for Congress in Arizona. The most remarkable thing about his campaign so far is how unremarkable it is in a state that’s embraced election conspiracies...

Asian Americans Raise Alarm Over ‘Chilling Effects’ of Section 702 Surveillance Program

More than 60 groups advocating for Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are pushing the US Congress to reform the Section 702 surveillance program as Senate leaders move to renew it...

A Powerful Tool US Spies Misused to Stalk Women Faces Its Potential Demise

Though often viewed as the “crown jewel” of the US intelligence community, fresh reports of abuse by NSA employees and chaos in the US Congress put the tool's future in jeopardy...

The US Congress Was Targeted With Predator Spyware

Plus: Hamas raised millions in crypto, Exxon used hacked data, and more...

The US Congress Has Trust Issues. Generative AI Is Making It Worse

Senators are meeting with Silicon Valley's elite to learn how to deal with AI. But can Congress tackle the rapidly emerging tech before working on itself?...

congress-intercultural.eu Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3619669

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

The Senate’s AI Future Is Haunted by the Ghost of Privacy Past

The US Congress is trying to tame the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. But senators’ failure to tackle privacy reform is making the task a nightmare...

The NSA Is Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'

The National Security Agency has urged top lawmakers to resist demands that it obtain warrants for sensitive data sold by data brokers...

Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act Goes Back to Congress

A bill to prevent cops and spies from buying Americans’ data instead of getting a warrant has a fighting chance in the US Congress as lawmakers team up against surveillance overreach...

FBI Surveillance Fears Are Uniting a Badly Broken Congress

The FBI has collected sensitive data on millions of Americans without warrants, drawing intense scrutiny from Congress and turning the agency into a punching bag across the political divide...

Storm-0978 attacks reveal financial and espionage motives

Microsoft has identified a phishing campaign conducted by the threat actor tracked as Storm-0978 targeting defense and government entities in Europe and North America. The campaign involved the abuse of CVE-2023-36884, which included a remote code execution vulnerability exploited before disclosu...

RomCom RAT Targeting NATO and Ukraine Support Groups

The threat actors behind the RomCom RAT have been suspected of phishing attacks targeting the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius as well as an identified organization supporting Ukraine abroad. The findings come from the BlackBerry Threat Research and Intelligence team, which found two malicious...

vet-congress.ch Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3348760

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

vienna-congress.at Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3331308

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

The TikTok CEO’s Face-Off With Congress Is Doomed

On Thursday, Shou Zi Chew will meet a rare united front in the US Congress against the Chinese-owned social media app that has lawmakers in a tizzy...

Hackers leak DC Health Link data with Congress Members’ details

By Habiba Rashid The data contains personal and medical details of several members of the U.S. Congress, which are now circulating on Russian hacker forums as well as on Telegram groups. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hackers leak DC Health Link data with Congress Member...

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, on March 1, 2023 at 1:00 PM CET. I’m speaking on “How to Reclaim Power in the Digital World” at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Thursday, March 16, 2023, at 5:30 PM...

Opera’s Security team at Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2023

Security Opera’s Security team at Barcelona Cybersecurity Congress 2023 Share February 9th, 2023 Hello readers! If you follow our Security team’s Twitter account it’s here, by the way!, you’ll have noticed we were busy last week meeting cybersecurity enthusiasts and professionals at this year’s...