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ICE’s Shiny New ‘AI’ Facial Recognition App: False Positives Ahoy!

Richi Jennings | June 30, 2025 | AI, AI (Artificial Intelligence), Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML), artificial intelligentce, artificial intellignece, biometric, biometric data, Biometric Data Abuse, biometric identification, biometric identity, biometric technology, CBP, Data & Artificial Intelligence (AI), Department of Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, digital biometrics, Digital Surveillance, facial recognition, facial recognition technology, false positive, false positives, generative artificial intelligence, government surveillance, homeland security, ICE, IDENT, Identity Surveillance, immigration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, lawful surveillance, Mobile Fortify, Mobile Surveillance, Passive biometrics, police surveillance, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, United States Department of Homeland Security, US Customs and Border Protection, US Homeland Security, USDHS

Mobile Fortify: Liberty’s existential threat, or sensible way to ID illegal immigrants? ...

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Juhan Lepassaar, executive director of the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA)

As US CVE Database Fumbles, EU ‘Replacement’ Goes Live

Diesen Kuß der ganzen Welt! European Union Vulnerability Database (EUVD) launches this week. And not a moment too soon ...

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In traditional Chinese writing, the word for “crisis” combines the characters for “danger” and “opportunity”

MITRE Crisis: CVE Cash Ends TODAY — CISA says ‘No Lapse’

These are “interesting” times: U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures program expires April 16 ...

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Teenage Hackers Must be Stopped: US DHS’s CSRB Report

2FA SMS FAIL: Lapsus$ social engineers exploited weak two-factor authentication. Something must be done! (Well, this is something.) ...

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Trump Fires Security Chief Christopher Krebs

BrianKrebs | November 18, 2020 | A Little Sunshine, Christopher Krebs, cisa, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, president trump, Rumor Control, Sen. Angus King, Sen. Richard Burr, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Y2K

President Trump on Tuesday fired his top election security official Christopher Krebs (no relation). The dismissal came via Twitter two weeks to the day after Trump lost an election he baselessly claims ...

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U.S. Govt. Makes it Harder to Get .Gov Domains

BrianKrebs | March 7, 2020 | .gov, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, John Levine, Other, The Internet for Dummies, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. General Services Administration

The federal agency in charge of issuing .gov domain names is enacting new requirements for validating the identity of people requesting them. The additional measures come less than four months after KrebsOnSecurity ...

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It’s Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

BrianKrebs | November 26, 2019 | cisa, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, DOTGOV Bill, dotgov.gov, exeterri.gov, John Levine, The Coming Storm, town.exeter.ri.us, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. General Services Administration, Web Fraud 2.0

Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names, or else assume there are at least more stringent verification requirements involved in obtaining a ...

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

BrianKrebs | September 9, 2019 | Dana Deasy, Data breaches, Hold Security, Julius Patterson, Miracle Systems LLC, National Institutes of Health, Perceptics, Sandesh Sharda, TrickBot, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Secret Service

The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has ...

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A Deep Dive on the Recent Widespread DNS Hijacking Attacks

The U.S. government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge ...

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Senator Sanders Wants to Own AI Companies — and Hand America’s Adversaries the Keys

NIST’s Nine: The PQC Signature Race Moves to Round Three

The Quantum Arms Race: Why Washington Just Wrote a $2 Billion Check to Nine Companies

Beyond Moore’s Law: The Hyper-Acceleration of Autonomous AI Cyber Capabilities

The Exception Economy: When Security Teams Stop Protecting and Start Negotiating

GoPlus’s Latest Report Highlights How Blockchain Communities Are Leveraging Critical API Security Data To Mitigate Web3 Threats

C2A Security’s EVSec Risk Management and Automation Platform Gains Traction in Automotive Industry as Companies Seek to Efficiently Meet Regulatory Requirements

Zama Raises $73M in Series A Lead by Multicoin Capital and Protocol Labs to Commercialize Fully Homomorphic Encryption

RSM US Deploys Stellar Cyber Open XDR Platform to Secure Clients

ThreatHunter.ai Halts Hundreds of Attacks in the past 48 hours: Combating Ransomware and Nation-State Cyber Threats Head-On