Did TalkTalk breach the Data Protection Act?
On Wednesday, online criminals decided to attack the UK broadband provider TalkTalk. This wasn’t an attack aimed at interrupting its ability to do business or provide its services, this was an attack the goal of which seemed to be accessing the personal data of its...
Pentagon Farmed Out Its Coding to Russia
By Patrick Malone, Center for Public Integrity The Pentagon was tipped off in 2011 by a longtime Army contractor that Russian computer programmers were helping to write computer software for sensitive U.S. military communications systems, setting in motion a four-year...
Law Firms Face Security Incidents Even as Tech Budgets Increase
When asked in 2015 if their firm was ever infected with virus/spyware/malware, 42.4 percent said yes; 34.9 percent said no; and 22.7 percent did not know. Read more:...
Military clearance OPM data breach ‘absolute calamity’
Anxiety is spreading among defense officials and the military community that the recent theft of federal government data linked to China may affect hundreds of thousands of service members. Compounding those concerns is the limited information made public by the...