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The Department of Justice has formally acknowledged the role that computer security researchers play in testing the safety of networks, devices, and online services. The DOJ has announced that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) has been revised to recognize the importance of good-faith...

The Chinese government halted all new game approvals last year, which pummeled the stock prices of Chinese developers like Tencent while making international developers hoping to enter the Chinese market anxious. After releasing a small initial batch approved games late last year, the Chinese...

Back in 2015, the White House Office of Personnel Management was hit by a big hack, and the government response was pretty slow. The Government Accountability Office, which recently released a scathing report on the security of U.S. weapon systems, issued several recommendations after the hack...

Apple has successfully blocked the "GrayKey" hack that allowed law enforcement and governments around the world unfettered access to passcodes on Apple devices running iOS. Devices running iOS 12 and above can only have metadata such as file structure and unencrypted files accessed by Grayshift...

Further complicating the hostile takeover of Qualcomm by Broadcom, the U.S government is saying that the deal could pose a national security risk, and is calling for a full investigation. The New York Times is reporting that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, or CIFUS...

Back in January after the Meltdown/Spectre threat became public knowledge members of Congress sent letters to Intel and others to ask them why they didn't tell the government about the problems. According to letters sent back to Congress it came down to the fact that Intel didn't feel it was...

According to the US cybersecurity czar, Rob Joyce, the US government has a long way to go before it starts regulating bitcoin. He believes the government needs to understand all the benefits and risks of the cryptocurrency first. However, he did note that the bitcoin trail is hard to follow...

Security researcher Scott Helme is reporting that a Cryptojacking event happened over the weekend where a 3rd party provider was compromised and their JS library was altered. The alteration included a mining script that landed on over 4,000 websites, many of which were Government sites. It turns...

It's been 3 years since Amazon finally relented and became the last major tech company to release a transparency report on what requests for data it receives from the government. ZDNet is now reporting that those reports, were not so transparent. Aside from not publishing how many users are...

You would think that after years of hacks on public and private institutions that all US Government websites would have HTTPS enabled by default. Think again because at least one-quarter of federal sites still don't support basic website encryption. As a matter of fact only 70% of Homeland...

Government bots designed to slash red tape and search case law could save the feds up to $41 billion per year by freeing up 1.2 billion working hours a study by consultancy firm Deloitte predicts. Some federal agencies already are already using AI in some form. The U.S. Citizenship and...

With no warning, India has blocked access to the Internet Archive (also known as the Internet Wayback Machine). Medianama reached out to Internet Archive for details, and was informed that they had not been contacted by the Government of India, and have no information as to why a block would...

Have you ever wondered how Amazon's Prime Shipping is able to even come close to being a good business model? Certainly there are some Amazon items that have a bigger ticket due to "free" Prime shipping, but there are surely some that don't. The Wall Street Journal is explaining some of the...