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Validating the security of contact tracing apps -- GCN

By GCN Staff
Feb 08, 2021
To ensure that contact tracing apps protect users’ security, privacy and civil liberties, the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has tapped a startup to develop app testing and validation services.
AppCensus, based in El Cerrito, Calif., already has a platform for at-scale analysis of mobile apps’ runtime behaviors and their security and privacy risks. The $198,600 Phase 1 award will allow the company to adapt its system to test Android and iOS contract tracing apps and publicly post the results, including descriptions and sensitivity of data the apps collect and the data-use policies of the apps’ publishers and third parties. ....

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SolarWinds Fallout: Practices to strengthen data protection -- GCN

By Saimon Michelson
Feb 08, 2021
The SolarWinds attack is already being described as one of the worst cyber-espionage cases in history. This massive hack has compromised local, state and federal agencies in the U.S., as well as the European Parliament and NATO.
The sweeping impact of this data breach, which keeps broadening as new information emerges, is a shrill wake-up call for government organizations to rethink their data protection strategies.
Anatomy of the SolarWinds attack
In March 2020, attackers injected a malicious Trojan into an update of the SolarWinds Orion IT infrastructure management software, which was then inadvertently distributed by SolarWinds and installed as an update to all Orion users 18,000 government and private users downloaded the compromised versions. ....

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NIST posts enhanced requirements for protecting CUI -- GCN

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published requirements that can help organizations protect controlled unclassified information against nation-state backed threats.

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NIST testing automated delivery of new security controls -- GCN

Starting this summer, the National Institute of Standards and Technology will begin to automate delivery of revisions to Special Publication 800-53. ....

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MilCloud adds AWS option -- GCN

The Defense Department’s MilCloud 2.0 contract now gives Defense Information Services Agency and other non-combat DOD agencies access to cloud services from Amazon Web Services. ....

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