Senator Elizabeth Warren and Representative Deborah Ross have introduced a bill that would require companies to disclose ransomware payments.
Homeland Security Investing Fake N95 Mask Scam
As if the pandemic is not bad enough, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is investigating a scam involving fake N95 masks.
DHS Tested Mask-Thwarting Facial Recognition
The Department of Homeland Security (DSH) has been testing facial recognition systems that can recognize faces with masks on.
PSA: Update Firefox Immediately—Critical Vulnerability Being Exploited
A recent release of Mozilla Firefox has a vulnerability severe enough that even the Department of Homeland Security is telling everyone to update. According to Mozilla, “incorrect alias information in IonMonkey JIT compiler for setting array elements could lead to…
7-Eleven Raids: Nine Arrested For Illegal Workers
The U.S. Attorney’s Office today unsealed two indictments charging nine 7-Eleven store owners and operators with wire fraud, steling identities, and concealing and harboring illegal immigrants. The defendants are accused hiring “dozens” of illegal immigrants and giving them identities stolen…
Homeland Security: 3D Printed Guns May Be Impossible To Stop
The government is concerned about the proliferation of 3D printed guns. That much was obvious when the State Department demanded Defense Distributed remove the blueprints for the first 3D printed gun – The Liberator – from its Web site. Now…
Dept. of Homeland Security Warns of Impending Zombie Apocalypse, But Not Really
If there’s one thing Americans love, it’s the zombie apocalypse. I don’t know why, really. Although some people think that it would be cool to blow the heads off the undead and attempt to survive in a brutal post-apocalyptic landscape,…
DHS Purchases 450 Million Hollow-point Bullets
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have made a purchase that is making a lot of people very nervous. Recently they put in for a “indefinite delivery” of an “indefinite quantity” of .40…
Homeland Security Monitors Blogs, Twitter, Facebook
Reuters announced yesterday that the Department of Homeland Security is monitoring a list of “publicly available online forums, blogs, public websites and message boards.” The list includes: * Facebook * Myspace (they note that Myspace is difficult to search –…
Firefox Stands Up For MafiaaFire Redirector
As many of you know, The Department of Homeland Security, besides protecting the safety of our homeland as the name implies, is also in the habit of defending web domain seizures conducted by ICE. While the reason why these two…