Since the release of a website that monitors nearly 20 percent of all public BitTorrent downloaders, even more pro-SOPA figures have been found downloading copyrighted material. Earlier this week, it was found that employees of major copyright holders Sony, Universal, and Fox were all found... Read more...
/11/... Are you f*cking kidding me? The only worse date for this event wouldve been 9/11/11... On Wednesday, November 9, 2011, FEMA, DHS and FCC will conduct the first national test of the Nationwide Emergency Alert System (EAS) test. This nationwide test will kick off at 2:00 p.m (EST) and ... Read more...
Phil Reitinger, the Department of Homeland Security's top cyber and computer crimes official, is resigning just days after the administration launched its most ambitious cybersecurity initiative. "I have decided that the time has come for me to move on from the Department," Reitinger wrote in... Read more...
Under a White House plan, the Homeland Security Department will have far-reaching oversight over all civilian agency computer networks. The proposal would codify much of the administration's memo from July 2010 expanding DHS's cyber responsibilities for civilian networks. The White House, howe... Read more...
When you navigate to a banking or e-commerce site, the little padlock displayed on your browser should mean the website is HTTPS-encrypted and secure. Many sites rely on a third-party certificate authority (CA) to issue a SSL certificate that guarantees the site is authentic. There are hundreds of... Read more...
A large file-sharing link site dedicated to rap and hiphop music and news has been raided by the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The servers of RapGodFathers, a site with close to 150,000 members, were seized and moves put in place to take over its domain... Read more...
An electronic rights advocacy group is expressing concern over what it contends was an overly broad surveillance of social networking sites conducted by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in the days leading up to the 2009 inauguration of President Barack Obama. The Electronic Frontier Found... Read more...
More than 30 privacy and civil liberties groups are asking the Department of Homeland Security to suspend the use of full body imagers at airports, saying there is evidence that privacy safeguards don't work and the devices are not effective. In a petition filed Wednesday, the groups also said th... Read more...
The government has portrayed the jumble of propane gas cylinders, gas cans, wiring, batteries and fireworks found in a car parked in Times Square yesterday as a terrorist bomb. DHS boss Napolitano took to the Sunday talk shows this morning and characterized the “amateurish type of bomb” a... Read more...