Amnesty International urges the US and other countries to stop arms transfers that could fuel atrocities. The US army has failed to monitor over $1bn worth of arms and other military equipment transfers to Kuwait and Iraq, Amnesty International says in a report citing a 2016 US government audit. The now-declassified document by the US Department of Defence (DoD) audit, was obtained by the rights group following Freedom of Information requests.

Two Democratic senators have asked Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai to explain why "FCC security personnel reportedly manhandled, threatened, and ejected" a journalist who was trying to ask questions after last week's net neutrality vote. Senators Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) sent a letter to Pai Friday, one day after CQ Roll Call reporter John Donnelly accused FCC guards of forcing him out of the building when he was trying to talk to Pai and Commissioner Michael O'Rielly.

US and EU officials have decided against a ban on laptops and tablets in cabin baggage on flights from Europe. But after a four-hour meeting in Brussels to discuss the threats to aviation security, officials said other measures were still being considered. US officials had previously said they were looking into extending to Europe a ban on electronics on flights from eight mostly Muslim countries.

A couple of things about the WannaCry cyberattack are certain. It was the biggest in history and it's a scary preview of things to come — we're all going to have to get used to hearing the word "ransomware." But one thing is a lot less clear: whether North Korea had anything to do with it. Despite bits and pieces of evidence that suggest a possible North Korea link, experts warn there is nothing conclusive yet — and a lot of reasons to be dubious. Why, for example, would Pyongyang carry out a big hack that hurt its two closest strategic partners more than anyone else? And for what appears to be a pretty measly amount of loot — ....

Researchers have detected a new worm that is spreading via SMB, but unlike the worm component of the WannaCry ransomware, this one is using seven NSA tools instead of two.

Early Friday morning the world experienced the year’s latest cyberattack. Starting first in the United Kingdom and Spain, the malicious “WannaCrypt” software quickly spread globally, blocking customers from their data unless they paid a ransom using Bitcoin. The WannaCrypt exploits used in the attack were drawn from the exploits stolen from the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the United States. That theft was publicly reported earlier this year.

Last year the Internet was taken down by cyber criminals through a massive Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) attack using the infamous Mirai malware. But last Friday afternoon, almost 99 countries including Russia, UK, USA and Australia became victims of a worldwide mass cyber-attack that has been reported to have caused major disruptions to systems that were being used by hospitals, companies, and other institutions.

As computer virus outbreaks go, the WannaCry ransomware attack currently spreading across the globe is one of the largest such attacks in some time. As we detailed thoroughly on Monday, WannaCry is a dangerous trojan virus that infects Windows computers, encrypting nearly all data in the process. In order to decrypt the files and regain access, WannaCry demands that $300 in bitcoins be paid to an anonymous account. After three days, the $300 ransom increases to $600. After seven days without payment, the computer’s contents are deleted.....

Experts discuss what healthcare organizations need to be doing in order to protect themselves from events like the WannaCry ransomware attack.

North Korea says the missile it tested Sunday is capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead, state media said Monday. The country's leader, Kim Jong Un, supervised the launch of the Hwasong-12 missile that reached an altitude of 2,111.5 kilometers (1,312 miles) and flew 787 kilometers (489 miles), according to state news agency KCNA.

A global cyberattack hits international shipper FedEx, disrupts Britain's health system and infects computers in nearly 100 countries.

Fingerprint sensors have turned modern smartphones into miracles of convenience. A touch of a finger unlocks the phone — no password required. With services like Apple Pay or Android Pay, a fingerprint can buy a bag of groceries, a new laptop or even a $1 million vintage Aston Martin. And pressing a finger inside a banking app allows a user to pay bills or transfer thousands of dollars. While such wizardry is convenient, it has also left a gaping security hole.

Recently, Holy Joe went on another sociopathic rampage, this time asserting "partisan gridlock" (defined by Holy Joe as Democrats not doing what Holy Joe + Republicans want done)

Big data analytics helps officials identify criminals and terrorists, while virtual reality training improves agencies’ situational awareness and responses.

Hackers exploit stolen US spy agency tools to launch massive cyber-attack on nearly 100 countries with Russia hit hard.

What you need to know about 'WannaCry', the malicious software behind Friday's worldwide hacking attack. Malicious software or "ransomware" has been used in a massive hacking attack, affecting tens of thousands of computers worldwide. Software security companies said a ransomware worm called "WannaCry" infected about 57,000 computer systems in 99 countries on Friday, with Russia, Ukraine, and Taiwan being the top targets. The hack forced British hospitals to turn away patients, affected Spanish companies such as Telefonica, and threw other government agencies and businesses into chaos.

The 22-year-old UK researcher tells how he stopped a global cyber-attack by spending £8. A UK security researcher has told the BBC how he "accidentally" halted the spread of the malicious ransomware that has affected hundreds of organisations, including the UK's NHS. The 22-year-old man, known by the pseudonym MalwareTech, had taken a week off work, but decided to investigate the ransomware after hearing about the global cyber-attack. He managed to bring the spread to a halt when he found what appeared to be a "kill switch" in the rogue software's code.

ProPublica and Gizmodo tested internet security at four Trump properties. It's not good.

From viral Internet videos to bluster on Capitol Hill, the airline industry — and United Airlines in particular — has taken a beating.

For starters, stop blaming and focus on the root causes, says Jonathan Care, research director at Gartner. Since its discovery last week, the WannaCry ransomware attack has continued to spread, hitting over 10,000 organisations and 200,000 individuals in over 150 countries. Although steps have been taken to slow the spread of this malware, new variations are surfacing.....

It’s time to take the cork out of these untapped geysers of art criticism and let them gush! By Xavier Aaronson. (Apr 5, 2012)

The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology and the office of Sen. Edward Markey are looking at ways to improve the security-by-design, cyber hygiene and layered defenses of devices.

Aura looks for intruders based on the subtle disturbances in wireless spectrum their movements make, like ripples in a lake.

President Donald Trump has spent his first 100 days trying to make good on several campaign promises, but not without controversy. From Inauguration Day to a flurry of executive orders to airstrikes in Syria and Afghanistan, the Trump administration has been busy. Here’s a look back at the first 100 days in 100 seconds. Nicole L. Cvetnic McClatchy

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of those concepts that seems to be gaining irreversible momentum in the world of technology. The basic concept - that every object in our daily lives, from refrigerators to thermostats to lights is WiFi enabled and connected to our networks - is an appealing one to many, offering up a Jetsons-like future where your home responds to your needs and commands. Developers in this space envision a future where your refrigerator can order milk from an online delivery service when it senses your stock getting low and your furnace can switch on 20 minutes before you get home to maximize efficiency and comfort.

The health sector is the most vulnerable, most targeted, and resoundingly least equipped to defend against hackers who are pummeling healthcare organizations with ransomware attacks. This ransomware epidemic will only become more severe and costly as the infection volume in 2017 will trump infections in 2016.

WASHINGTON, May 11, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- (ISC)2® ("ISC-squared") today announced the winners of its 14th annual U.S. Government Information Security Leadership Awards (GISLA®) program during a gathering of government cybersecurity executives at the GISLA Gala in Washington, D.C.

The men stole confidential information that helped them profit on the stock market, prosecutors say.

WannaCrypt's roots -- the malware behind world's biggest ransomware attack ever -- lie in an old Windows network protocol.

Much of the IoT's value resides at the network's edge, where organizations collect some of their most sensitive information. Traditional security measures can't always protect this data. Experts weigh in on how to prevent physical access to the network through IoT devices and safeguard the data collected and processed at the edge.

What would a military conflict on the Korean Peninsula look like? To many, this question might trigger a severe case of apocalyptic anxiety, where, on the one hand, we assume that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is willing to embrace ötterdämmerung-like catastrophic violence to defend its Stalinist regime, whereas, on the other hand, we seem to be incapable of genuinely fathoming the carnage any military conflict between Seoul and Pyongyang would cause.

In 1938 a wallet manufacturer called the E.H. Ferree company had a genius idea: to show people just how well cards would fit in the wallet, by using a placeholder. The social security card they used was fake in almost all ways but one: The social security number on it was real. It belonged to the secretary of the company’s Vice President and Treasurer, a woman named Mrs. Hilda Schrader Whitcher. The wallet was sold all over the US in Woolworth stores. And soon after it hit the shelves, people started using that social security number as their own.

When President Trump appealed to the public to submit proposals for his “big, beautiful” border wall, you can be pretty sure that the plan presented by the Mexican American Design and Engineering Collective (MADE) was not what he had in mind. In response to the president’s mad quest to build a wall along the US-Mexico border, the group of 14 designers, engineers, builders, and architects from the US and Mexico proposed something entirely different—a high-tech “ecotopia” called Otra Nation.

Discussions underway about expanding electronics ban as officials weigh possible advantages and disruptions it would cause