Military strike plans of the U.S. against Houthi rebels in Yemen were discussed over the Signal messaging app and exposed by The Atlantic after the inadvertent inclusion of its editor-in-chief in the chat.
State and local governments have been urged by the New America's Open Technology Institute to implement data encryption, hashing, de-identification, and other privacy enhancing technologies to avert potential breaches amid growing concerns regarding the Department of Government Efficiency's increasingly pervasive access to federal agencies' sensitive information, reports CyberScoop.
Cybersecurity and privacy experts have expressed worry regarding the security of genetic and personal data belonging to more than 15 million 23andMe customers after the major California-based genetic testing provider's bankruptcy filing on Sunday, CyberScoop reports.