infosec
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Queensland Will Now Upload Licence Photos To Australia’s Facial Recognition Database
Queensland will become the fourth state to upload its repository of driver’s licences to Australia’s controversial facial recognition database.
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The FBI Says Two US State Elections Databases Have Already Been Hacked
The FBI has evidence that foreign hackers have accessed the state election databases in two US states. According to Yahoo News, the FBI sent out a “flash alert” to election offices and officials across the US, asking them to take better security precautions.
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The FBI Says Its Malware Isn’t Malware Because The FBI Is Good
The FBI is facing accusations that malware it deployed while running Operation Playpen, a sting that infiltrated and maintained a dark web child pornography website for two weeks and eventually led to more than 100 arrests, was illegal. But the agency swears that using malware was good because, well, the FBI had good intentions.
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US Homeland Security Secretary Begs Silicon Valley To Stop The Encryption
Today at massive security tech conference RSA in San Francisco, US Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson told a packed audience that DHS would be forging alliances with Silicon Valley. He described plans to build an office here, in order to work directly with tech companies on key issues for the DHS.