Defense DOD wants industry to continue with CMMC prep amid program review The Pentagon wants defense contractors to keep pushing forward with preparing for the implementation of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program despite pending results from its internal review, which could bring significant changes to the program. Dr. Christine Michienzi, chief technology officer…
BBC Click’s LJ Rich looks at the best tech news stories of the week including: Apple unveiled new iPhone 13 handsets which come with Cinematic Mode, a portrait-style option for shooting videos with depth of field. TikTok launched a range of mental health features, with some support resources linked to the search term “suicide”. Australian…
No one likes passwords because of the inconvenience, and they are the very prime target. From the year’s security is a most crucial part of digital lives like email, bank account, video games, shopping cart, etc. This is expected that everyone creates a unique and complex password, and remembers them. Very frequently, they also need…
The supermodel and businesswoman Naomi Campbell has spoken of her sorrow over the rift between the Dukes of Cambridge and Sussex. She told Hardtalk‘s Zeinab Badawi she was sad to watch the Oprah Winfrey interview with Harry and Meghan earlier this year. “For me knowing Princess Diana, to see that her two boys were not…
The prosecutor tasked with examining the U.S. government’s investigation into Russian election interference charged a prominent cybersecurity lawyer on Thursday with making a false statement to the FBI. The case against the attorney, Michael Sussmann, is just the second prosecution brought by special counsel John Durham in two-and-a-half years of work. Yet neither case brought…
Written by John Hewitt Jones Sep 16, 2021 | FEDSCOOP The Department of Defense expects to complete a review of its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program by late 2021, delivering then any required changes to the program to industry. The review is one of several current initiatives within the Pentagon looking at the cybersecurity program,…
Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams take against campaigns using fake accounts, the company told Reuters. The new approach uses the tactics usually taken by Facebook’s security teams for wholesale shutdowns…
Microsoft says everyone can remove the password from their Microsoft account and use other methods to sign in starting today. The company rolled out the option to enterprise users earlier this year, and it plans to remove passwords from enterprise accounts completely. Rather than having to remember a password or using a password manager, you’ll…
Application Security , Breach Notification , Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks Breach Notification Report Reveals Some PII Could Have Been Exposed Scott Ferguson (Ferguson_Writes) • September 16, 2021 The Republican Governors Association was one of several U.S. organizations targeted in March when a nation-state group took advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange email servers,…
The UK, US and Australia have announced a special security pact to share advanced technologies including nuclear-powered submarine know-how. The partnership, labelled Aukus, aims to “defend our shared interests in the Indo-Pacific”, the leaders of the three nations said in a joint statement. US President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and UK PM…
