Senators raise concerns over Donald Trump’s smartphone security – Graham Cluley Security News

Senators raise concerns over Donald Trump's smartphone security
Graham Cluley Security News
Senators Claire McCaskill and Tom Carper — both Democrats who serve on the Homeland Security Committee – want to know what protective measures have been put in place. In a letter sent to the US Secretary for the Department of Defense on February …

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Expert: Line between cyber crooks and cyber spies getting more blurry

Cybercriminals acting on behalf of national governments and nation-backed espionage agents carrying out cybercrimes for cash on the side is the future of security threats facing corporations and governments, says the former top U.S. attorney in charge of the Department of Justice’s national security division.

john carlin Morrison & Foerster

John Carlin

“I think this blending of criminal and national security, whether it’s terrorists or state actors moonlighting as crooks or state actors using criminal groups as a way to distance themselves from the action, I think that is a trend that we saw increasing that’s just going to continue to increase over the next three to five years,” says John Carlin, now an attorney with Morrison & Foerster.

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Trump ran a campaign based on intelligence security. That’s not how he’s governing. – Washington Post


Washington Post

Trump ran a campaign based on intelligence security. That's not how he's governing.
Washington Post
“Donald Trump for the longest time has been using a insecure Android phone that by all reports is so easy to compromise, it would not meet the security requirements of a teenager,” Weaver told NPR, and while he couldn't say for sure, “we must assume

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SophosLabs malware forecast points to rising IoT threats, more ransomware – Naked Security (blog)

SophosLabs malware forecast points to rising IoT threats, more ransomware
Naked Security (blog)
While some of the report does indeed look at Microsoft-specific challenges, we decided to focus more on the increasing malware threats directed at platforms where the risks are often not as well understood, specifically Linux, MacOS and Android devices.

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