As the Trump administration’s aggressive immigration policy ramps up, people have started to seriously consider their privacy and security when crossing into the United States. That’s especially true when it comes to searches of travelers’ phones and other devices, which US Customs and Border Protection agents have broad authority toContinue Reading
Lauren Goode: I think Katie should go first. She’s the boss. Katie Drummond: So as you all know, because I can’t stop talking about it, I recently returned from France, and one thing in particular that I am now pathologically fixated on, that I am recommending to all of you,Continue Reading
Privacy and digital rights advocates largely prefer the approach of building a travel device from scratch, but they caution that a phone that is too squeaky clean, too much like a burner phone, can arouse suspicion. “You have to ‘seed’ the device. Use the phone for a day or evenContinue Reading
Just three months into the Trump administration’s promised crackdown on immigration to the United States, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement now has a $30 million contract with Palantir to build a “near-real time” surveillance platform called ImmigrationOS that would track information about people self-deporting (electing to leave the US). Meanwhile, theContinue Reading
“No other vendor could meet these timeframes of having the infrastructure in place to meet this urgent requirement and deliver a prototype in less than six months,” ICE says in the document. ICE’s document does not specify the data sources Palantir would pull from to power ImmigrationOS. However, it saysContinue Reading
The US Treasury Department was initially alone in providing the court a timeline of the messages that it was able to retrieve. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent had received a preservation memo on March 26, his acting general counsel said, as well as advice regarding his fundamental duty to preserve records.Continue Reading
As China continues its digital gambit around the world, researchers are warning that hacking activity from long-tracked groups is evolving and blending together. On top of that, attackers are hiding their campaigns more effectively and blurring the lines between cybercriminals and state-backed hacking. Last year, revelations rocked the United StatesContinue Reading
Russian state hackers, perhaps more than those of any other nation, tend to show off. The notorious Sandworm unit within Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency, for instance, has triggered unprecedented blackouts and released destructive, self-replicating code. The FSB’s ingenious Turla group has hijacked satellite internet connections to steal victims’ dataContinue Reading
That initial wave of CyberAv3ngers hacking, both real and fabricated, appears to have been part of a tit-for-tat with another highly aggressive hacker group that is widely believed to work on behalf of Israeli military or intelligence agencies. That rival group, known as Predatory Sparrow, repeatedly targeted Iranian critical infrastructureContinue Reading
The wife of data privacy professor Xiaofeng Wang, who was fired from his tenured job at Indiana University, Bloomington (IU) the same day the couple’s houses were searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation last month, said on Monday that she believes her family has been unfairly targeted by theContinue Reading
