Homeland Security will read your social media posts
At least someone will care what you ate for breakfast
The Department of Homeland Security has begun implementing a strategy to gather and analyse intelligence about security threats from public social media posts, DHS officials said.
DHS Acting Inspector General alleged to have stolen code
And nicked government databases
The US Department of Justice has charged a former Acting Inspector General for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the theft of proprietary software and confidential government databases.
Russian hackers focused on 21 electorates
But failed to do much good
Homeland Security says that it has found evidence that Russian hackers targeted 21 US state election systems in the 2016 presidential race – a small number were breached but there was no evidence any votes were manipulated.
Homeland security looks at Internet of Things
The lightbulbs are revolting
The Obama administration has ordered Homeland Security to come up with a cunning plan to make the Internet of Things devices more secure after a huge DoS attack on major websites.
Delete QuickTime now
Government health warning
Forget Flash, Apple’s QuickTime videoplayer is so insecure it should be deleted from any PC unfortunate to have it, the US government has warned.