Sen. Sanders Talks to Claude About AI and Privacy

Claude is actually pretty good on the issues...

Microsoft Still Uses RC4

Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft over its continued use of the RC4 encryption algorithm. The letter talks about a hacker technique called Kerberoasting, that exploits the Kerberos authentication system...

Data Brokers Face New Pressure for Hiding Opt-Out Pages From Google

After reporters found dozens of firms hiding privacy tools from search results, US senator Maggie Hassan insists the companies explain their practices—and pledge to improve access to privacy controls...

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...

Your 23andMe genetic data could be bought by China, senator warns

Senator Cassidy, the chair of the US Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee has expressed concerns about foreign adversaries, including the Chinese Communist Party, acquiring the sensitive genetic data of millions of Americans through 23andMe. The risk is considered real because ...

On November 13, NIST NVD finally admitted the obvious: they had failed to process the CVE analysis backlog before the end of the fiscal year (September 30)

On November 13, NIST NVD finallyadmittedthe obvious: they had failed to process the CVE analysis backlog before the end of the fiscal year September 30. This is actually visible in their own statistics. At the moment, there are 19860 identifiers in the backlog. This week, 1136 new CVEs were...

Automakers Are Telling Your Insurance Company How You Really Drive

Plus: The operator of a dark-web cryptocurrency “mixing” service is found guilty, and a US senator reveals that popular safes contain secret backdoors...

Senator Warner on the Restrict Act and a US TikTok Ban

WIRED spoke with the coauthor of the Restrict Act, a bipartisan bill to crack down on tech from six “hostile” countries...

Enter the Hunter Satellites Preparing for Space War

True Anomaly, a startup backed by US senator JD Vance's VC firm, plans to launch prototype pursuit satellites on a SpaceX flight later this year...

Data and Goliath Book Placement

Notice the copy of Data and Goliath just behind the head of Maine Senator Angus King. This demonstrates the importance of a vibrant color and a large font...

senator-hotel.com.ua Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-1225352

Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website operator about its existence...

senator-hotel.com.ua Cross Site Scripting vulnerability

Open Bug Bounty ID: OBB-1171070 Following coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspa. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbspb. notified the website...

AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon Blasted For Data Privacy Policies

A U.S. senator has put telecommunication companies – AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint and Verizon – on notice for their data-collection and retention policies. Last week, U.S. senator Ron Wyden D-Ore. sent an open letter to the CEOs of the four major telecom providers urging them to limit the data they...

Russia Is Going to Up Its Game for the 2020 Elections

"You don't need to change votes to cause chaos," Senator Mark Warner tells WIRED in an exclusive interview...

Amazon Admits Alexa Voice Recordings Saved Indefinitely

Amazon has acknowledged that it retains the voice recordings and transcripts of customers’ interactions with its Alexa voice assistant indefinitely. The admission raises questions about how long companies should be able to save highly-personal data collected from voice assistant devices. After U....

Threatpost News Wrap Podcast For July 27

Threatpost’s Tom Spring and Lindsey O’Donnell sit down to discuss the top breaking news from the week. Stories of importance include shipping giant COSCO being hit with a ransomware attack, a Senator requesting a government mandate to stop using Adobe Flash by August 2019, and Facebook’s outgoing...

Calls For Regulation Build After Facebook Privacy Fallout

As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared before Congress this week, politicians stressed the need for regulation to secure end users’ data privacy on social media platforms. The series of hearings on Tuesday and Wednesday gave members of Congress an opportunity to question Facebook about multiple...

Senator Demands Answers About CloudPets Breach

A U.S. senator has called Spiral Toys onto the carpet for its data security practices in light of the recent CloudPets breach. Sen. Bill Nelson D-FL, a ranking member of the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and backer of a 2016 report on security and privacy concerns related to...

Sen. Warren Worried About Banks' New Encrypted Messaging Platform

UPDATE–The list of politicians in Washington wringing their hands over the increasing use of encryption by consumers and businesses is growing longer by the day. Sen. Elizabeth Warren added her name to that list on Monday. Warren D-Mass. sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch expressing...

Senator Demands Answers on FBI's Use of Zero Days, Phishing

The chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee is asking some pointed questions of the FBI director about the bureau’s use of zero-day vulnerabilities, phishing attacks, spyware, and other controversial tools. Sen. Charles Grassley R-Iowa has sent a letter to FBI Director James Comey...