WASHINGTON DC - The US Supreme Court won't allow a challenge to the National Security Agency's phone snooping skip steps and come straight to its doorstep. Instead, the case will have to work its way through the appeals process. Last year, a federal district court judge ruled that the NSA's bulk collection of phone record
WASHINGTON DC - A new report based on the trove of NSA documents leaked to journalists last year by Edward Snowden says the agency's UK counterpart, the GCHQ, spied on German Internet firms, and it provides more information on the NSA's efforts to monitor German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The report, published in German magazine Der
LANSING - The Department of Community Health announced Thursday that a flash drive containing health information on 2,595 clients of the Long Term Care Ombudsman's Office had been stolen, potentially compromising the names, addresses and Social Security numbers of some of those people. The drive and a laptop were stolen from an employee of the
ANN ARBOR - Duo Security and LastPass announced a new partnership, integrating Duo's mobile-based two-factor authentication solution to the LastPass password management platform to provide an additional layer of credential security, protecting both personal and enterprise users. Duo is now available?and free for up to 10 users?for LastPass Free, Premium and Enterprise customers. The LastPass
GRANDVILLE - Trivalent Group, the Better Business Bureau serving Western Michigan, Fishnet Security, and West Michigan Cyber Security Consortium are sponsoring a no-cost cyber security conference that will explore the question Are You the Next Target. The conference is open to the public and will cover topics pertaining to information security for business owners and
SAN FRANCISCO - Customers aren't the only ones still dealing with fallout from the Target hack. Two banks have reportedly filed a lawsuit against Trustwave, claiming the security firm didn't do enough to stop the Target data breach. Trustmark National Bank and Green Bank N.A. have sued Trustwave, arguing that the company, which provides security
WASHINGTON DC - The person who triggered the furor over the National Security Agency's spying activities has given a tentative thumb's up to plans to change some of the agency's controversial methods. In a statement released Wednesday through the American Civil Liberties Union, Edward Snowden called plans to rein in the National Security Agency's bulk
SAN FRANCISCO - The November data breach that affected as many as 110 million Target customers could have been stopped in its tracks, according to a story published Thursday by Bloomberg. Speaking with more than ten former Target employees and eight people with knowledge of the hack, Bloomberg said that Target already had in place
BIRMINGHAM - The lesson to be learned from the content of Snowden?s documents released to date is that the NSA has built a global capability to execute on a plan of information dominance for intelligence gathering. Ostensibly to collect enough communications meta data and content to deter, disrupt, and destroy terrorists and their plans, the
SAN FRANCISCO - An ongoing investigation has revealed that a Vietnamese man posing as a private investigator was able to dupe Experian in to compromising data which could equate to millions of customer records. Last year, Krebs on Security published a story documenting the tale of 24-year-old Vietnamese national Hieu Minh Ngo, the founder of