The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) got hammered yet one more time for breaches that laid the agency low earlier this year as a report from the Inspector General's office took it to task for the way it awarded a contract to a firm charged with providing identity protection services to those affected by the hacks.
While Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey didn't make the case that encrypted communications aided terrorists who launched attacks in San Bernadino, Calif., and Paris, in testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary he pleaded his case for tech companies to allow government access to encrypted data.
A suspension clause has been inserted into the proposed replacement of the Safe Harbor arrangement that would authorize the E.U. to suspend transfers should it suspect the U.S. of not doing enough to guarantee the privacy of individuals' personal information.
Anonymous has targeted Donald Trump, claiming it had taken down a Trump Tower website via a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in response to the billionaire presidential candidate's heated rhetoric and call to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S.
