security News of 01/16/21

Two Key UK Military Non-Profits Join Forces To Boost Veteran Training In Cyber And Tech

Advancements in the tech and the cyber threat landscape are creating vast job opportunities. The global cyber security market is projected to reach £210 billion by 2026. But in the UK, out of 952,000 working aged (16-64) UK military veterans and ...

Twitter Now Supports Hardware Security Keys For IPhones And Android

Twitter said Wednesday that accounts protected with a hardware security key can now log in from their iPhone or Android device. The social media giant rolled out support for hardware security keys in 2018, allowing users to add a physical security ...

Europe Will Push To Work With The US On Tech Governance, Post-Trump

The European Union said today that it wants to work with US counterparts on a common approach to tech governance — including pushing to standardize rules for applications of technologies like AI and pushing big tech to be more responsible for ...

Massachusetts Lawmakers Vote To Pass A Statewide Police Ban On Facial Recognition

Massachusetts lawmakers have voted to pass a new police reform bill that will ban police departments and public agencies from using facial recognition technology across the state. The bill was passed by both the state’s House and Senate on ...

Ivanti Has Acquired Security Firms MobileIron And Pulse Secure

IT security software company Ivanti has acquired two security companies: enterprise mobile security firm MobileIron, and corporate virtual network provider Pulse Secure. In a statement on Tuesday, Ivanti said it bought MobileIron for $872 million ...

Google Launches Android Enterprise Essentials, A Mobile Device Management Service For Small Businesses

Google today introduced a new mobile management and security solution, Android Enterprise Essentials , which, despite its name, is actually aimed at small to medium-sized businesses. The company explains this solution leverages Google’s ...

Thousands Of U.S. Lab Results And Medical Records Spilled Online After A Security Lapse

NTreatment, a technology company that manages electronic health and patient records for doctors and psychiatrists, left thousands of sensitive health records exposed to the internet because one of its cloud servers wasn’t protected with a ...

UK Shrinks Timetable For Telcos To Stop Installing 5g Kit From Huawei

The UK government has squeezed the timetable for domestic telcos to stop installing 5G kit from Chinese suppliers, per the BBC , which reports that the deadline for installation of kit from so-called ‘high risk’ vendors is now September. ...

The Supreme Court Will Hear Its First Big CFAA Case

The Supreme Court will hear arguments on Monday in a case that could lead to sweeping changes to America’s controversial computer hacking laws — and affecting how millions use their computers and access online services. The Computer Fraud ...

US Fertility Says Patient Data Was Stolen In A Ransomware Attack

U.S. Fertility, one of the largest networks of fertility clinics in the United States, has confirmed it was hit by a ransomware attack and that data was taken. The company was formed in May as a partnership between Shady Grove Fertility, a ...

Splunk Acquires Network Observability Service Flowmill

Data platform Splunk continues to make acquisitions as it works to build out its recently launched observability platform . After acquiring Plumbr and Rigor last month, the company today announced that it has acquired Flowmill , a Palo ...

Decrypted: Apple And Facebook’S Privacy Feud, Twitter Hires Mudge, Mysterious Zero-Days

Trump’s election denialism saw him retaliate in a way that isn’t just putting the remainder of his presidency in jeopardy, it’s already putting the next administration in harm’s way. In a stunning display of retaliation, ...

Australia’S Spy Agencies Caught Collecting COVID-19 App Data

Australia’s intelligence agencies have been caught “incidentally” collecting data from the country’s COVIDSafe contact tracing app during the first six months of its launch, a government watchdog has found. The report, ...

Biden-Harris Team Finally Get Their Transition .Gov Domain

Finally. It only took almost three weeks, but the Biden-Harris transition has officially begun. On Monday, the General Services Administration gave the green light for the Biden-Harris team to transition from political campaign to government ...

A Bug Meant Twitter Fleets Could Still Be Seen After They Disappeared

Twitter is the latest social media site to allow users to experiment with posting disappearing content. Fleets, as Twitter calls them, allows its mobile users post short stories , like photos or videos with overlaying text, that are set to vanish ...

FireEye Acquires Respond Software For $186m, Announces $400m Investment

The security sector is ever frothy and acquisitive. Just last week Palo Alto Networks grabbed Expanse for $800 million. Today it was FireEye’s turn snagging Respond Software , a company that helps customers investigate and understand ...

Facebook Sues Operator Of Instagram Clone Sites

Facebook has today filed another lawsuit against a company acting in violations of its terms of service. In this case, the company has sued Ensar Sahinturk, a Turkish national who operated of a network of Instagram clone sites, according to court ...

Google Plans To Test End-To-End Encryption In Android Messages

For the past year and a half, Google has been rolling out its next-generation messaging to Android users to replace the old, clunky, and insecure SMS text messaging. Now the company says that rollout is complete, and plans to bring end-to-end ...

Messaging App Go SMS Pro Exposed Millions Of Users’ Private Photos And Files

Go SMS Pro, one of the most popular messaging apps for Android, is exposing photos, videos and other files sent privately by its users. Worse, the app maker has done nothing to fix the bug. Security researchers at Trustwave discovered the flaw in ...

UK To Invest In AI And Cyber As Part Of Major Defense Spending Hike

The UK has announced a massive boost in defense spending — £16.5 billion ($21.8BN) over four years, the biggest such spending bump for 30 years — in what prime minister Boris Johnson has described as a “once in a generation ...