DoJ Continues to Target China’s Thousand Talents Program in U.S.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) continues to use every arrow in its prosecutorial quiver to go after those participants who are exposing and sharing U.S. research and technologies to China via the People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) Thousand Talents Program. The Thousand Talents Program, also referred to as the ... Read More
Quarantine Monitoring: China Throws Privacy Out the Door
The world continues to reel from COVID-19, as the pandemic rages on. In China, government entities are explicitly stating they are in test, trace and isolate mode. In “COVID-19: Contact Tracing Your Privacy or Your Health,” we noted the role the China Health Application plays in the Chinese effort. And ... Read More
COVID Email Attack or Email Harvesting?
The well-publicized publishing of 25,000+ emails and passwords allegedly associated with the World Health Organization, the Gates Foundation and the National Institutes of Health has captured the attention of both infosec practitioner and the layman. Attribution for the discovery is credited to SITE Intelligence Group, which noted that the credentials ... Read More
COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Your Privacy for Your Health?
We continually hear of the need for COVID-19 contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published guidance on contact tracing during the 2006 Ebola epidemic. In that guide, it explained how tracing finds new cases quickly so that they can be isolated ... Read More
COVID-19: China and Russia Disinformation and Shenanigans
As we sit here at the beginning of April, it is sometimes hard to remember that it was Nov. 17, 2019, when China discovered a virus emanating from a central fish and wildlife market in the city of Wuhan. The virus has become known as Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19). Initial ... Read More
Levandowski Admits to Stealing Waymo’s IP
The prosecution of former Google engineer Anthony Levandowski ended March 20 when he agreed to plead guilty to one count of theft and attempted theft of trade secrets from Alphabet’s Waymo after pilfering Waymo’s intellectual property (IP). In early 2018, as a result of Levandowski’s theft, Waymo and Uber settled ... Read More
Data Privacy and Security in the Travel Industry
As COVID-19 mauls the travel sector and hotels, airlines and cruise lines shutter their doors or park their planes and ships, this interlude may present them an opportunity to address how they handle passenger information. Each of these sectors of the travel industry collects personally identifiable information and each has ... Read More
Women of Hamas and Their Social Engineering Skills
Recently the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) sent a warning to all concerned about the efforts of Hamas to identify, contact, engage, socially engineer and then compromise IDF personnel. Surprise of surprises: Hamas had created a half-dozen personas, all of whom were 20-something women—the women of Hamas—to make this goal a ... Read More
Election Security a 2020 Myth?
As the 2020 election season shifts into high gear, the importance of election security becomes one of the most important issues facing the U.S. Thousands of hours have been spent within government investigating and discussing the role played by Russia and its active measures to disrupt and influence the U.S ... Read More
The Klaxon Sounds on Ring’s Privacy, Trust Issues
For a video security service that has found its way into millions of homes, privacy and trust are the keystones of remaining in place. Ring, the Amazon-owned video/security service, has been stumbling over its own feet for months as the company addresses issues of its own making. The Electronic Freedom ... Read More
