Open-source tech leaders urge new Congress to prioritize privacy in blockchain regulation
“This caliber of principled leadership for our digital future, and the future of digital innovation in the US, is long...
Anonymous hacker, who bragged about exploits on TikTok, says he was raided by Canadian police
Cottle, a Canadian who goes by the online handle “Kirtaner,” helped popularize Anonymous more than a decade ago when the...
First major voting vendor, Hart InterCivic, partners with Microsoft on ambitious software security tool ElectionGuard
The ElectionGuard open-source software development kit gives voters a unique code to track their encrypted vote and confirm it wasn’t manipulated,...
Jack Cable, Stanford student and cyber whiz, aims to crowdsource ransomware details
That’s the impetus behind a project that Stanford University student and security researcher Jack Cable launched on Thursday, dubbed “Ransomwhere,”...
EARN IT Act gets no changes to encryption language in Senate committee
The Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act (EARN IT Act), introduced for the first time in 2020 by Sens....
France blames Sandworm, a notorious Russian group, for breach that leveraged IT provider
France’s Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI) issued a report detailing how attackers exploited an IT resource monitoring tool...
ID.me misled IRS on processing times for identity verification, congressional investigators found
The IRS said it would “transition away from” using third-party facial recognition software services after its partnership with ID.me drew...
FIN7 hacker sentenced to five years
Denys Iarmak, a high-level member of the criminal hacking group FIN7, was sentenced to five years in prison today by...
